相爭

to vie against one another / to fight each other / mutual aggression

each other / one another / mutually / fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶[pi2 pa5] (a fret on the soundboard is called a 品[pin3])

appearance / portrait / picture / government minister / (physics) phase / (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features) / to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)

to strive for / to vie for / to argue or debate / deficient or lacking (dialect) / how or what (literary)

when two kingdoms are at war, they don't execute envoys (idiom)

two tigers fighting (idiom); fierce contest between evenly matched adversaries

if two tigers fight, one will get injured (idiom) / if you start a war, someone is bound to get hurt

see 楚漢戰爭|楚汉战争[Chu3 Han4 Zhan4 zheng1]

term in TCM describing the progress of disease as an opposition between vital energy 正氣|正气[zheng4 qi4] and pathogeny 邪氣|邪气[xie2 qi4]

lit. sandpiper and clam war together (and the fisherman catches both) (idiom); fig. neighbors who can't agree lose out to a third party

lit. sandpiper and clam war together and the fisherman catches both (idiom); fig. neighbors who can't agree lose out to a third party

abbr. for 鷸蚌相爭，漁翁得利|鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利[yu4 bang4 xiang1 zheng1 , yu2 weng1 de2 li4]

lit. when the snipe and the clam grapple with each other, the fisherman catches them both (idiom) / fig. when two sides are locked in dispute, it's often a third party that benefits