Describes a situation where multiple people compete or fight to get something, often with a sense of disorder or urgency. Commonly used in phrases like 取り合いになる or 取り合いをする.
Customers got into a scramble over the popular item.
A fight broke out in the struggle for seats.
Standard kanji spelling; the most common written form.
Search-only variant; not commonly used in modern writing.
Compound of 取り (continuative form of 取る, 'to take') + 合い (continuative form of 合う, 'to do together'), literally 'taking each other'. The historical derivation is straightforward.