争长竞短爭長競短 in English
- (idiom) To quibble over small differences or compete over who ranks higher. It describes petty competitiveness.
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
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
竞
These are the forms of 競, the traditional character: 竞 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 孫吳 - See all 14 forms
短
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).