战斗

Character by character

• 战zhàn9 strokesHSK 4 traditional 戰war, fighting, battle
• 斗dòu4 strokesHSK 4 traditional 鬥a dipper; unit of volume (ten 升 or litres); Kangxi radical 68; 8th lunar mansion, determinative star φ Sagittarii

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Example sentences

• 我会战斗至死。

  Wǒ huì zhàn dòu zhì sǐ

  I will fight to the death.

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• 这是战斗发生的地方。

  Zhè shì zhàn dòu fā shēng de dì fang

  This is the place where the battle took place.

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Words with the same characters

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

• 战争zhàn zhēngHSK 4

  war; conflict

• 挑战tiǎo zhànHSK 4

  to challenge; challenge

• 斗争dòu zhēngHSK 6

  a struggle; fight; battle

• 斗dòuHSK 7

  to fight; to struggle; to condemn; to censure; to contend; to put together; coming together

• 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

• 奋斗fèn dòuHSK 4

  to strive; to struggle

• 战场zhàn chǎngHSK 6

  battlefield

• 战役zhàn yì

  military campaign

• 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

• 斗志dòu zhìHSK 7

  will to fight; fighting spirit

• 搏斗bó dòuHSK 7

  to wrestle; to fight; to struggle

• 艰苦奋斗jiān kǔ fèn dòuHSK 7

  to struggle arduously

• 泰斗tài dǒuHSK 7

  (abbr. for 斗) distinguished figure; doyen; revered authority