漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
戦: war, battle
Also: match
JLPT N313 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
戈 carries the meaning · 単 gives the sound
13 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
センsen · on'yomi · in compounds
- 戦争せんそうwar
- 戦闘せんとうbattle, fight, combat
- 戦場せんじょうbattlefield, battleground
- 戦前せんぜんpre-war
- 戦後せんごpostwar
- 作戦さくせんtactics, strategy
- 決勝戦けっしょうせんfinals game of a tournament decision of a…
- 観戦するかんせんするwatch a game
- 敗戦するはいせんするlose, be defeated
- 挑戦するちょうせんするchallenge, defy [v.i.]
いくさikusa · kun'yomi · on its own
- 戦いくさwar, battle, campaign, fight
たたかうtatakau · kun'yomi
- 戦うたたかうfight [v.i.]
Also read おののく, そよぐ, わななく, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)單 (sound) + 戈 halberd (meaning)
Battling with a halberd.
Source: Wiktionary, 戰 (rev. 92200509), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Single/simple (単) + halberd (戈). Here 単 is mainly the sound element, while the halberd says it all: a battle, as in 戦争 (war).”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side戦 war · 戈
vs弾 bullet · 弓In ChineseSimplified 战 · traditional 戰 · zhàn
Three different forms: Japanese 戦, simplified 战, traditional 戰.
- Simplified
- 战 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 戰 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhàn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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