競

競 (Kangxi radical 117, 立+15, 20 strokes, cangjie input 卜山卜廿山 (YUYTU), four-corner 0021₆, composition ⿰竞竞)

• KangXi: page 873, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25831
• Dae Jaweon: page 1304, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2717, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7AF6

Historical forms of the character 競
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

According to Shuowen, an Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 誩 (“argument”) + 儿 (“man”) + 儿 (“man”) – two individuals competing. Also possibly a Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡraŋs) : phonetic 誩 (OC *ɡaŋʔ, *ɡraŋs, *l̥ʰuːms) + semantic 儿 (“man”) + semantic 儿 (“man”). Compare 友.

競

1. to contend; to vie; to compete
2. (literary) competitively; eagerly; trying to outdo one another
3. ^† strong; powerful

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. competition
2. to compete

• Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)^{←ぎやう (gyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: けい (kei, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: きょう (kyō, Jōyō)^{←きやう (kyau, historical)}
• Kun: きおう (kiō, 競う)^{←きほふ (kifofu, 競ふ, historical)}; きおい (kioi, 競)^{←きほひ (kifofi, 競, historical)}; きおい (kioi, 競い)^{←きほひ (kifofi, 競ひ, historical)}; きそう (kisō, 競う, Jōyō)^{←きそふ (kisofu, 競ふ, historical)}; きそい (kisoi, 競)^{←きそひ (kisofi, 競, historical)}; きそい (kisoi, 競い)^{←きそひ (kisofi, 競ひ, historical)}; くらべる (kuraberu, 競べる)^{←くらぶ (kurabu, 競ぶ, historical)}; くらべ (kurabe, 競); くらべ (kurabe, 競べ); くら (kura, 競); せる (seru, 競る, Jōyō); せり (seri, 競); せり (seri, 競り)

競 (eumhun 다툴 경 (datul gyeong))

1. Hanja form^? of 경 (“competition”).

• 경기 (競技, gyeonggi, “a match”)
• 경쟁 (競爭, gyeongjaeng, “competition”)

競: Hán Nôm readings: cạnh, ganh

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