争短论长爭短論長 in English
- (idiom) To argue over minor differences and compare who is better or worse. It is equivalent to “争长竞短”.
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
争
These are the forms of 爭, the traditional character: 争 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
短
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
论
These are the forms of 論, the traditional character: 论 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
长
These are the forms of 長, the traditional character: 长 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 29 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).