DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

星海爭霸

简星海争霸 · 繁星海爭霸

Mandarin · pinyin Xīng hǎi Zhēng bà

StarCraft (video game series) (Tw)

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

星: xīng · a star, planet; any point of light; 25th lunar mansion, determinative star α Hydrae (Alphard)
海: hǎi · sea, ocean; maritime
爭: Look up this written character
霸: bà · rule by might rather than right
争: zhēng · dispute, fight, contend, strive

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

1–3–1–4 · Xing1 hai3 Zheng1 ba4

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

5character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

星海爭霸 · find source passages ↗ · 星海争霸 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗