仗火

zhànghuǒ
noun

Measure Word

仗火 chǎng

Meanings

  1. 1 battle
  2. 2 combat
  3. 3 fighting

Examples

Qiánxiàn de zhànghuǒ yuè dǎ yuè jīliè.
The fighting at the front grew fiercer and fiercer.
Tā jīnglì guò jǐ chǎng dà zhànghuǒ.
He has been through several major battles.

Tips

register
仗火 is dialectal/literary, mostly seen in older fiction and revolutionary-era writing. The standard modern word for combat is 战斗 (zhàndòu); 打仗 (dǎzhàng) is the everyday verb 'to fight a war'.
memory
= 'battle' (as in 打仗 dǎzhàng 'to wage war'); here doesn't mean literal 'fire' but is metonymy for gunfire / battle, the same found in 火力 (huǒlì 'firepower') and 战火 (zhànhuǒ 'flames of war'). Together they reinforce 'battle'.

Stroke Order

zhàng
huǒ