feud

Components
鬥 meaning component

  Meaning component

dòu

  

fight

fight

兒 sound component

  Sound component

érr

  

son

Evolution

鬩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鬩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

feud, fight, quarrel; to argue; to quarrel

Most common words with 鬩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to argue

兄弟阋墙

internecine strife (idiom); fighting among oneself

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ŋ̊]ˤek

xek

wrangle


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4894th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+9B29

Shuowen

“鬩,恒訟也。《詩》云:‘兄弟鬩于牆。’从鬥,从兒。兒,善訟者也。”


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