戰

See also: 戦 and 战

Translingual

Traditional	戰
Shinjitai	戦
Simplified	战

Han character

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

Descendants

• 戦 战

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 414, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11667
• Dae Jaweon: page 757, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1412, character 12
• Unihan data for U+6230

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Chinese

trad.		戰
simp.		战
alternative forms		𢧐 non

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 戰
Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (單) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
嚲	*taːlʔ
癉	*taːlʔ, *taːls, *taːn, *daːn
奲	*taːlʔ, *tʰjaːlʔ
驒	*daːl, *daːn, *teːn
鼉	*daːl
磾	*teːl
鷤	*deːl, *deːls, *daːn
觶	*tjal, *tjals
單	*taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans
鄲	*taːn
殫	*taːn
簞	*taːn
匰	*taːn
襌	*taːn
彈	*daːn, *daːns
貚	*daːn, *deːn
撣	*daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan, *taːnʔ
潬	*daːnʔ
僤	*daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan
憚	*daːns
樿	*tjanʔ
燀	*tjanʔ, *tʰjan, *tʰjanʔ
戰	*tjans
闡	*tʰjanʔ
繟	*tʰjanʔ
幝	*tʰjanʔ
嘽	*tʰaːn, *tʰjanʔ
灛	*tʰjanʔ
蟬	*djan
禪	*djan, *djans
嬋	*djan
墠	*djanʔ
鱓	*djanʔ
蕇	*teːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tjans) : phonetic 單 (OC *taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans) + semantic 戈 (“halberd”) – battling with a halberd.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 戰

1. to fight
2. war; battle; fight

   永戰／永战  ―  yǒng zhàn  ―  eternal war

   永戰／永战 [Guangzhou Cantonese]  ―  wing⁵ zin³ [Jyutping]  ―  eternal war

3. to tremble; to shiver

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Japanese

Shinjitai	戦
Kyūjitai	戰

Kanji

戰

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 戦)

1. fighting, battle

Readings

• Go-on: せん (sen)
• Kan-on: せん (sen)
• Kun: いくさ (ikusa, 戰); たたかい (tatakai, 戰い)^{←たたかひ (tatakafi, 戰ひ, historical)}; たたかう (tatakau, 戰う)^{←たたかふ (tatakafu, 戰ふ, historical)}; おののき (ononoki, 戰き)^{←をののき (wononoki, 戰き, historical)}; おののく (ononoku, 戰く)^{←をののく (wononoku, 戰く, historical)}; そよぎ (soyogi, 戰ぎ); そよぐ (soyogu, 戰ぐ); そよがす (soyogasu, 戰がす); わななく (wananaku, 戰く)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 戰 (chiến, xuyến, chuyến)

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