戰

See also: 戦 and 战

Translingual

shinjitai	戦
simplified	战
traditional	戰

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 單 + semantic 戈 (“halberd”) – battling with a halberd.

Han character

戰 (radical 62 戈+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 口十戈 (RJI), four-corner 6355₀, composition ⿰單戈)

1. war, fighting, battle

Descendants

• 戦 战

References

• KangXi: page 414, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11667
• Dae Jaweon: page 757, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1412, character 12
• Unihan data for U+6230

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Cantonese

Hanzi

戰 (simplified 战, Jyutping zin3, Yale jin3)

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Japanese

Kanji

戰

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 戦)

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Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: たたかう (tatakau), いくさ (ikusa)

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Korean

Hanja

戰 (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

戰 (simplified 战, Pinyin zhàn (zhan4), Wade-Giles chan⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

戰 (chiến, xuyến, chuyến)

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