Chinese Character 战 Meanings and components.

Form

战

Meaning

战 meaning[3] in English

To Fight.

Fight.

War.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 战 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are variant of 占[zhan4] (占) , and surname Ge (戈)

Its radical[1] is: 戈 (ge1) which means: Surname Ge, .戈ge1surname Ge

In cangjie it is written with YRI

How to write 战

To write战zhan4to fight you should write a combination of 占zhan4variant of … , 戈ge1surname Ge arranged in a 吅 shape:

占 + 戈 = 战

战 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 战 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 战, looks as follow:

战
Pinyin:zhan4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Fight . Fight . War . Battle
占
Pinyin:zhan4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 占[Zhan4]
卜
Pinyin:bo5
Meaning[3]: Surname Bu
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
戈
Pinyin:ge1
Meaning[3]: Surname Ge
弋
Pinyin:yi4
Meaning[3]: To Shoot
丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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