挑战

Character by character

• 挑tiāo9 strokesHSK 4a load carried on the shoulders; to carry
• 战zhàn9 strokesHSK 4 traditional 戰war, fighting, battle

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

Example sentences

• 这是一个巨大的挑战。

  Zhè shì yī gè jù dà de tiǎo zhàn

  That's a huge challenge.

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Words with the same characters

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

• 战争zhàn zhēngHSK 4

  war; conflict

• 战斗zhàn dòuHSK 4

  to fight; to engage in combat; struggle; battle

• 挑tiāoHSK 4

  to carry on a shoulder pole; to choose; to pick; to nitpick

• 战士zhàn shìHSK 4

  fighter; soldier; warrior

• 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

• 挑选tiāo xuǎnHSK 4

  to choose; to select

• 战役zhàn yì

  military campaign

• 战友zhàn yǒuHSK 6

  comrade-in-arms; battle companion

• 挑衅tiǎo xìnHSK 7

  to provoke; provocation

• 挑起tiǎo qǐHSK 7

  to provoke; to stir up; to incite

• 挑剔tiāo tiHSK 7

  picky; fussy

• 冷战lěng zhànHSK 7

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

• 挑拨tiǎo bō

  to incite disharmony; to instigate