contending for supreme beauty (esp. of flowers, scenery, painting etc); vying in beauty and glamor
trad. 爭妍鬥艷
Also written 爭妍鬥艷【zhēng yán dòu yàn】
Characters in this word
4争
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to strive for, to vie for, to argue or debate, deficient or lacking (dialect), how or what (literary)
- Pinyin
- zhēng
- Traditional
- 爭
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 13204 of 2500
妍
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beautiful
- Pinyin
- yán
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 38788 of 2500
斗
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abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星[Bei3 dou3 xing1]
- Pinyin
- Dǒu
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 7149 of 2500
艳
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variant of 豔|艳[yan4]
- Pinyin
- yàn
- Traditional
- 艶
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 37379 of 2500