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戰

zhàn

war, fighting, battle

Strokes
16
Radical
戈
HSK
—
Tone
4

Simplified form: 战

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Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 战, the simplified form of 戰. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 我为正义而战。

    Wǒ wèi zhèng yì ér zhàn

    I fight in the cause of justice.

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  • 我们反对战争。

    Wǒ men fǎn duì zhàn zhēng

    We are against war.

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  • 他们都战死了。

    Tā men dōu zhàn sǐ le

    They all died in the battle.

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  • 要做爱不要战争。

    Yào zuò ài bù yào zhàn zhēng

    Make love, not war.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 战

  • 战争zhàn zhēng 4–1 war; conflict
  • 挑战tiǎo zhàn 3–4 to challenge; challenge
  • 战斗zhàn dòu 4–4 to fight; to engage in combat; struggle; battle
  • 战士zhàn shì 4–4 fighter; soldier; warrior
  • 战胜zhàn shèng 4–4 to prevail over; to defeat; to surmount
  • 战略zhàn lüè 4–4 strategy
  • 作战zuò zhàn 4–4 combat; to fight
  • 战术zhàn shù 4–4 tactics
  • 战场zhàn chǎng 4–3 battlefield
  • 战役zhàn yì 4–4 military campaign
  • 战友zhàn yǒu 4–3 comrade-in-arms; battle companion
  • 冷战lěng zhàn 3–4 cold war; (fig.) strained relationship; to be barely on speaking terms