zhàn
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (variant) variant of 战 / 戰: war; battle; to fight

Examples

Dì-èr cì Shìjiè Dàzhàn chíxù le liù nián.
The Second World War lasted six years.

Tips

history
Not a standard Chinese character — it is the Japanese shinjitai form of , whose mainland simplified form is . You meet it only in Japanese text; Chinese always writes .
register
Foreign-variant glyph; appears in cross-language and etymology notes, never in written Chinese.

Components

radical
dagger-axe; weapon
The weapon radical on the right pictures a dagger-axe and supplies the meaning — armed conflict, war.
phonetic
dān
single (Japanese shinjitai of 單)
The left side is the Japanese simplified standing where Chinese has its bolt-shape. It is the reduced phonetic of the traditional .

No stroke data for ; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.

Stroke Order

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