| Word form | kenka |
| Original script | 喧嘩/諠譁 |
| LWT meaning(s) | |
| Word meaning | Original meaning “uproar, talk loudly” (attested in 903/940, the present meaning, however, is attested earlier, in 807/太平記(14th century)). Specifically an oral argument can be called kuchigenka “mouth-argument” (1899) |
| Analyzability | analyzable compound |
| Gloss | ken-ka noisy-noisy |
| Age | Late Old Japanese [21] (794–1185) |
| Lexical stratum | kango |
| Year | 807 |
| Comparison with Mandarin | semantic change (Japanese) |
| Register | General |
| Numeric frequency | 36.6 |