战争

Character by character

• 战zhàn9 strokesHSK 4 traditional 戰war, fighting, battle
• 争zhēng6 strokesHSK 3 traditional 爭dispute, fight, contend, strive

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 我们反对战争。

  Wǒ men fǎn duì zhàn zhēng

  We are against war.

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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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• 我们战争胜利了。

  Wǒ men zhàn zhēng shèng lì le

  We won the battle.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 战争. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 挑战tiǎo zhànHSK 4

  to challenge; challenge

• 竞争jìng zhēngHSK 5

  to compete; competition

• 战斗zhàn dòuHSK 4

  to fight; to engage in combat; struggle; battle

• 争取zhēng qǔHSK 3

  to fight for; to strive for; to win over

• 斗争dòu zhēngHSK 6

  a struggle; fight; battle

• 战士zhàn shìHSK 4

  fighter; soldier; warrior

• 争zhēngHSK 3

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

• 战略zhàn lüèHSK 6

  strategy

• 战胜zhàn shèngHSK 4

  to prevail over; to defeat; to surmount

• 作战zuò zhànHSK 6

  combat; to fight

• 战术zhàn shùHSK 6

  tactics

• 战场zhàn chǎngHSK 6

  battlefield

• 争夺zhēng duóHSK 6

  to fight over; to contest; to vie over

• 争论zhēng lùnHSK 4

  to argue; to debate; to contend; argument; contention; controversy; debate

• 争议zhēng yìHSK 5

  controversy; dispute; to dispute

• 争吵zhēng chǎoHSK 7

  to quarrel; dispute

• 战役zhàn yì

  military campaign

• 争执zhēng zhíHSK 7

  to dispute; to disagree; to argue opinionatedly; to wrangle

• 战友zhàn yǒuHSK 6

  comrade-in-arms; battle companion

• 冷战lěng zhànHSK 7

  cold war; (fig.) strained relationship; to be barely on speaking terms

• 抗争kàng zhēngHSK 7

  to resist; to make a stand and fight (against)

• 争端zhēng duānHSK 7

  dispute; controversy; conflict

• 力争lì zhēngHSK 7

  to work hard for; to do all one can; to contend strongly

• 争气zhēng qìHSK 7

  to work hard for sth; to resolve on improvement; determined not to fall short