zheng1   to contend / wetteifern -           Ricci I 375 #683


Heutige mögliche Bedeutungen
streiten, Streit,  Wettbewerb, streitig machen, auseinandersetzen, diskutieren
Kampf, Wettstreit, Wettbewerb, wetteifern,
Konkurrenz,
streben, eifrig,
knapp sein, ungenügend sein,

Possible meanings of nowaday
to wrangle, to strive, to contend, to vie, to compete, to argue, to dispute
to struggle, to fight , to quarrel
short of,  to lack,  to be deficient in,
same as  how?- why?



Andere Versionen - other versions

Two hands struggling for possession of a stick?
a hand  pulling a string  from the top and from the bottom - struggle?


Radikale / radicals

Kangxi #87  zhao3 Klauen, Greifer von Vögel oder Tieren, greifen -  claws of birds or animals, feet, to scratch, to claw, to grasp,
Kangxi #6 jue2 Widerhaken, - barb
Kangxi #2  gun3 Vertikale - a perpendicular


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Konkordanz im Daodejing - Concordance
Kapitel / chapter #3, #8, #22, #66, #68, #73, #81

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