U+4E89 "争" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

争

U+4E89 "争" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to contend," "to strive," or "to dispute," and it is composed of the radical for "claw" or "hand" (爫) above the component for "to pull" or "to draw" (彐), suggesting the action of grasping or fighting over something. This character is used in various East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it appears in words related to competition, argument, or struggle, such as 争斗 (zhēngdòu, meaning conflict) and 战争 (zhànzhēng, meaning war). In Unicode, it is part the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, which encodes characters common to these writing systems, and its historical evolution traces back to ancient bronze script depictions of two hands pulling at an object, highlighting its core semantic theme of contentious effort.

General Properties

Code Point	U+4E89
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	争
HTML Hex Encoding	争
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE4 0xBA 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0x4E89
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00004E89
C/C++/Java Escape	\u4e89

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCCCII	2D4A3B
kCNS1986	E-2265
kCNS1992	3-2265
kCangjie	NSD
kCantonese	zaang1
kCihaiT	58.301
kDefinition	dispute, fight, contend, strive
kEACC	2D4A3B
kFourCornerCode	2750.7
kGB0	5389
kGB1	5389
kHanYu	10324.120
kHanyuPinlu	zhēng(1708)
kIICore	AGJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10324.120
kIRGKangXi	0137.301
kIRG_GSource	G0-5579
kIRG_HSource	H-89E2
kIRG_JSource	J0-4168
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3470
kIRG_KSource	K2-214D
kIRG_TSource	T3-2265
kJapanese	ソウあらそうあらそいいかでか
kJoyoKanji	2010
kTGH	2013:508
kJapaneseKun	ARASOU ARASOI IKADEKA
kJapaneseOn	SOU
kJis0	3372
kKangXi	0137.301
kMainlandTelegraph	3630
kMandarin	zhēng
kMatthews	365
kMojiJoho	MJ006434
kMorohashi	00236
kNelson	0186
kPhonetic	32
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2794+6.1.5
kRSUnicode	6.5
kSemanticVariant	U+722D<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant	"争" U+4E89 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTGHZ2013	473.020:zhēng
kTotalStrokes	6
kTraditionalVariant	"争" U+4E89 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "爭" U+722D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GHJ
kXHC1983	1472.030:zhēng