(zhàn) - war; battle; to fight (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
zhànTraditional: 战
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Translation
war; battle; to fight (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: 戈 (gē, a dagger-axe) supplies the warlike meaning, while 占 (zhàn) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 占 (zhàn, phonetic) + 戈 (gē, dagger-axe)
Stroke order
战
Examples
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That war lasted many years.
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They showed bravery in battle.
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No one wants war.
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He took part in that war.
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War and peace are both major matters.
战 (zhàn) is a bound morpheme for war and battle, used in 战争 (zhàn zhēng) "war" and 战斗 (zhàn dòu) "to fight".
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 战.
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