| 戰 | [ zhàn ] to fight, fight, war, battle |
| 戰亂 | [ zhàn luàn ] chaos of war |
| 戰事 | [ zhàn shì ] war, hostilities, fighting |
| 戰俘 | [ zhàn fú ] prisoner of war |
| 戰備 | [ zhàn beì ] war preparation |
| 戰兢 | [ zhàn jīng ] to tremble, to be on guard |
| 戰兢兢 | [ zhàn jīng jīng ] shaking with fear |
| 戰列艦 | [ zhàn liè jiàn ] battleship |
| 戰利品 | [ zhàn lì pǐn ] spoils of war |
| 戰力 | [ zhàn lì ] military strength, military power, military capability |
| 戰功 | [ zhàn gōng ] outstanding military service |
| 戰勝 | [ zhàn shèng ] to prevail over, to defeat, to surmount |
| 戰區 | [ zhàn qū ] war zone, combat zone, (military) theater of operations |
| 戰友 | [ zhàn yoǔ ] comrade-in-arms, battle companion |
| 戰國 | [ zhàn guó ] the Warring States period (475-221 BC) |
| 戰國七雄 | [ zhàn guó qī xióng ] Seven Powerful States of the Warring States, namely: 齊|齐[Qi2], 楚[Chu3], 燕[Yan1], 韓|韩[Han2], 趙|赵[Zhao4], 魏[Wei4] and 秦[Qin2] |
| 戰國時代 | [ zhàn guó shí daì ] the Warring States period (475-221 BC), Japanese Warring States period (15th-17th century) |
| 戰國末 | [ zhàn guó mò ] late Warring States period, c. 250-221 BC before the First Emperor's Qin Dynasty |
| 戰國末年 | [ zhàn guó mò nián ] late Warring States period, c. 250-221 BC before the First Emperor's Qin Dynasty |
| 戰國策 | [ zhàn guó cè ] "Strategies of the Warring States", chronicle of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), possibly written by Su Qin 蘇秦|苏秦[Su1 Qin2] |
| 戰團 | [ zhàn tuán ] fighting group, by extension, a fight, a fray |
| 戰地 | [ zhàn dì ] battlefield |
| 戰場 | [ zhàn chǎng ] battlefield, CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 戰壕 | [ zhàn haó ] trench, entrenchment |
| 戰壕熱 | [ zhàn haó rè ] trench fever |
| 戰士 | [ zhàn shì ] fighter, soldier, warrior, CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 戰局 | [ zhàn jú ] war situation |
| 戰役 | [ zhàn yì ] military campaign |
| 戰後 | [ zhàn hoù ] after the war, postwar |
| 戰慄 | [ zhàn lì ] to tremble, shudder |
| 戰戰兢兢 | [ zhàn zhàn jīng jīng ] trembling with fear, with fear and trepidation |
| 戰戰慄慄 | [ zhàn zhàn lì lì ] to tremble with fear |
| 戰抖 | [ zhàn doǔ ] to shudder, to tremble |
| 戰敗 | [ zhàn baì ] to lose a war |
| 戰斗部 | [ zhàn doù bù ] warhead |
| 戰斧 | [ zhàn fǔ ] battle-ax |
| 戰旗 | [ zhàn qí ] a war flag, an army banner |
| 戰時 | [ zhàn shí ] wartime |
| 戰書 | [ zhàn shū ] written war challenge |
| 戰機 | [ zhàn jī ] opportunity in a battle, fighter aircraft, war secret |
| 戰死沙場 | [ zhàn sǐ shā chǎng ] to die in battle (idiom) |
| 戰況 | [ zhàn kuàng ] battlefield situation, battle progress |
| 戰法 | [ zhàn fǎ ] military strategy |
| 戰火 | [ zhàn huǒ ] conflagration, the fire of war |
| 戰火紛飛 | [ zhàn huǒ fēn feī ] fire of war everywhere (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war |
| 戰無不勝 | [ zhàn wú bù shèng ] to triumph in every battle (idiom); invincible, to succeed in every undertaking |
| 戰無不勝，攻無不克 | [ zhàn wú bù shèng gōng wú bù kè ] to triumph in every battle and win every fight (idiom); all-conquering, ever victorious, nothing they can't do |
| 戰無不勝，攻無不取 | [ zhàn wú bù shèng gōng wú bù qǔ ] to triumph in every battle and win every fight (idiom); all-conquering, ever victorious, nothing they can't do |
| 戰爭 | [ zhàn zhēng ] war, conflict, CL:場|场[chang2],次[ci4] |
| 戰爭罪 | [ zhàn zhēng zuì ] war crime |
| 戰爭與和平 | [ zhàn zhēng yǔ hé píng ] War and Peace by Tolstoy 托爾斯泰|托尔斯泰 |
| 戰犯 | [ zhàn fàn ] war criminal |
| 戰略 | [ zhàn lvè ] strategy |
| 戰略伙伴 | [ zhàn lvè huǒ bàn ] strategic partner |
| 戰略夥伴 | [ zhàn lvè huǒ bàn ] variant of 戰略伙伴|战略伙伴[zhan4 lu:e4 huo3 ban4] |
| 戰略家 | [ zhàn lvè jiā ] a strategist |
| 戰略性 | [ zhàn lvè xìng ] strategic |
| 戰略核力量 | [ zhàn lvè hé lì liang ] strategic nuclear force |
| 戰略核武器 | [ zhàn lvè hé wǔ qì ] strategic nuclear weapon |
| 戰略要點 | [ zhàn lvè yaò diǎn ] strategic point |
| 戰略轟炸機 | [ zhàn lvè hōng zhà jī ] strategic bomber |
| 戰略防御倡議 | [ zhàn lvè fáng yù chàng yì ] strategic defense initiative (SDI) |
| 戰禍 | [ zhàn huò ] disastrous conflict, bloody warfare |
| 戰線 | [ zhàn xiàn ] battle line, battlefront, front |
| 戰績 | [ zhàn jì ] military successes, (fig.) success, accomplishment |
| 戰船 | [ zhàn chuán ] warship |
| 戰艦 | [ zhàn jiàn ] battleship, warship |
| 戰術 | [ zhàn shù ] tactics |
| 戰術導彈 | [ zhàn shù daǒ dàn ] tactical missile |
| 戰術核武器 | [ zhàn shù hé wǔ qì ] tactical nuclear weapons |
| 戰袍 | [ zhàn paó ] (old) combat robe, soldier's uniform, (sports) team jersey, team shirt |
| 戰車 | [ zhàn chē ] war chariot, tank |
| 戰酣 | [ zhàn hān ] (literary) at the height of the battle |
| 戰馬 | [ zhàn mǎ ] warhorse |
| 戰鬥 | [ zhàn doù ] to fight, to engage in combat, struggle, battle, CL:場|场[chang2],次[ci4] |
| 戰鬥力 | [ zhàn doù lì ] fighting strength |
| 戰鬥機 | [ zhàn doù jī ] fighter (aircraft) |
| 戰鬥營 | [ zhàn doù yíng ] boot camp |
| 戰鬥群 | [ zhàn doù qún ] battle group, naval formation headed by an aircraft carrier |
| 戰鬥者 | [ zhàn doù zhě ] fighter |
| 戰鬥艦 | [ zhàn doù jiàn ] battleship |
| ⇒ 一戰 | [ yī zhàn ] World War I (1914-1918) |
| ⇒ 丁卯戰爭 | [ dīng maǒ zhàn zhēng ] first Manchu invasion of Korea (1627) |
| ⇒ 不列顛保衛戰 | [ bù liè diān baǒ weì zhàn ] see 不列顛戰役|不列颠战役[Bu4 lie4 dian1 Zhan4 yi4] |
| ⇒ 不列顛戰役 | [ bù liè diān zhàn yì ] Battle of Britain (Jul-Oct 1940) |
| ⇒ 不宣而戰 | [ bù xuān ér zhàn ] open hostilities without declaring war, start an undeclared war |
| ⇒ 不惜一戰 | [ bù xī yī zhàn ] to be ready to go to war |
| ⇒ 不戰不和 | [ bù zhàn bù hé ] neither war nor peace |
| ⇒ 世界大戰 | [ shì jiè dà zhàn ] world war |
| ⇒ 丙子戰爭 | [ bǐng zǐ zhàn zhēng ] second Manchu invasion of Korea (1636) |
| ⇒ 中法戰爭 | [ zhōng fǎ zhàn zhēng ] Sino-French War (1883-1885) (concerning French seizure of Vietnam) |
| ⇒ 中越戰爭 | [ zhōng yuè zhàn zhēng ] Sino-Vietnamese War (1979) |
| ⇒ 中途島戰役 | [ zhōng tú daǒ zhàn yì ] Battle of Midway, June 1942 |
| ⇒ 主戰派 | [ zhǔ zhàn paì ] the pro-war faction, hawks |
| ⇒ 二戰 | [ èr zhàn ] World War II |
| ⇒ 二次世界大戰 | [ èr cì shì jiè dà zhàn ] World War Two |
| ⇒ 二次大戰 | [ èr cì dà zhàn ] World War Two |
| ⇒ 交戰 | [ zhàn ] to fight, to wage war |
| ⇒ 人民戰爭 | [ rén mín zhàn zhēng ] people's war, military strategy advocated by Mao whereby a large number of ordinary citizens provide support in a campaign |
| ⇒ 人海戰術 | [ rén haǐ zhàn shù ] (military) human wave attack |
| ⇒ 伊斯蘭聖戰組織 | [ yī sī lán shèng zhàn zǔ zhī ] Islamic Jihad (Palestinian armed faction) |
| ⇒ 休戰 | [ xiū zhàn ] armistice |
| ⇒ 作戰 | [ zuò zhàn ] combat, to fight |
| ⇒ 作戰失蹤 | [ zuò zhàn shī zōng ] see 作戰失蹤人員|作战失踪人员[zuo4 zhan4 shi1 zong1 ren2 yuan2] |
| ⇒ 作戰失蹤人員 | [ zuò zhàn shī zōng rén yuán ] missing in action (MIA) (military) |
| ⇒ 侵略戰爭 | [ qīn lvè zhàn zhēng ] war of aggression |
| ⇒ 保證破壞戰略 | [ baǒ zhèng pò zhàn lvè ] assured destruction strategy |
| ⇒ 停戰 | [ tíng zhàn ] armistice, cease fire |
| ⇒ 停戰日 | [ tíng zhàn rì ] Armistice Day |
| ⇒ 備戰 | [ beì zhàn ] prepared against war, to prepare for war, warmongering |
| ⇒ 克里木戰爭 | [ kè lǐ mù zhàn zhēng ] the Crimean War (1853-1856) |
| ⇒ 內戰 | [ neì zhàn ] civil war |
| ⇒ 兩伊戰爭 | [ liǎng yī zhàn zhēng ] Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) |
| ⇒ 八二三炮戰 | [ bā èr sān paò zhàn ] bombardment of Kinmen by PRC forces that started August 23rd 1958, also called the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis |
| ⇒ 六二五戰爭 | [ liù èr wǔ zhàn zhēng ] the Korean War (started June 25 1950) |
| ⇒ 六日戰爭 | [ liù rì zhàn zhēng ] the Six-Day War of June 1967 between Israel and its Arab neighbors |
| ⇒ 冷戰 | [ lěng zhàn ] (US-Soviet) Cold War |
| ⇒ 冷戰 | [ lěng zhàn ] cold war, (fig.) strained relationship, to be barely on speaking terms |
| ⇒ 冷戰 | [ lěng zhan ] (coll.) shiver, shudder |
| ⇒ 出戰 | [ chū zhàn ] (military) to go off to war, (sports) to compete |
| ⇒ 前哨戰 | [ qián shaò zhàn ] skirmish |
| ⇒ 力戰 | [ lì zhàn ] to fight with all one's might |
| ⇒ 助戰 | [ zhù zhàn ] to support (in battle) |
| ⇒ 化學戰 | [ huà xué zhàn ] chemical warfare |
| ⇒ 化學戰劑 | [ huà xué zhàn jì ] chemical warfare agent |
| ⇒ 化學戰劑檢毒箱 | [ huà xué zhàn jì jiǎn dú xiāng ] chemical detection kit |
| ⇒ 化學戰斗部 | [ huà xué zhàn doù bù ] chemical warhead |
| ⇒ 南征北戰 | [ nán zhēng beǐ zhàn ] war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters |
| ⇒ 參戰 | [ cān zhàn ] to go to war, to engage in war |
| ⇒ 反恐戰爭 | [ fǎn kǒng zhàn zhēng ] war on terrorism |
| ⇒ 反戰 | [ fǎn zhàn ] anti-war |
| ⇒ 反戰抗議 | [ fǎn zhàn kàng yì ] antiwar protest |
| ⇒ 反生物戰 | [ fǎn shēng wù zhàn ] biological (warfare) defense |
| ⇒ 口水戰 | [ koǔ shuǐ zhàn ] war of words |
| ⇒ 口角戰 | [ koǔ zhàn ] war of words |
| ⇒ 唇槍舌戰 | [ chún qiāng shé zhàn ] war of words |
| ⇒ 商戰 | [ shāng zhàn ] trade war |
| ⇒ 國內戰爭 | [ guó neì zhàn zhēng ] civil war, internal struggle |
| ⇒ 國共內戰 | [ guó gòng neì zhàn ] Chinese Civil War, also known as War of Liberation 解放戰爭|解放战争[Jie3 fang4 Zhan4 zheng1] |
| ⇒ 國際戰爭罪法庭 | [ guó jì zhàn zhēng zuì fǎ tíng ] International war crimes tribunal |
| ⇒ 地緣戰略 | [ dì yuán zhàn lvè ] geostrategic |
| ⇒ 大戰 | [ dà zhàn ] war, to wage war |
| ⇒ 太平洋戰爭 | [ taì píng yáng zhàn zhēng ] Pacific War between Japan and the US, 1941-1945 |
| ⇒ 奮戰 | [ fèn zhàn ] to fight bravely, (fig.) to struggle, to work hard |
| ⇒ 好戰 | [ haò zhàn ] warlike |
| ⇒ 孟良崮戰役 | [ mèng liáng gù zhàn yì ] Battle of Mt Mengliang in Shandong of 1947 between the Nationalists and Communists |
| ⇒ 孤軍奮戰 | [ gū jūn fèn zhàn ] lit. lone army putting up a brave fight (idiom), fig. (of a person or group of people) struggling hard without support |
| ⇒ 官渡之戰 | [ guān dù zhī zhàn ] Battle of Guandu of 199 that established Cao Cao's 曹操[Cao2 Cao1] domination over north China, at Guandu (near modern 許昌|许昌[Xu3 chang1] in north Henan) |
| ⇒ 宙斯盾戰鬥系統 | [ zhoù sī dùn zhàn doù xì tǒng ] Aegis Combat System (weapons system developed for the US Navy) |
| ⇒ 宣戰 | [ xuān zhàn ] to declare war |
| ⇒ 寒戰 | [ hán zhàn ] shiver |
| ⇒ 實戰 | [ shí zhàn ] real combat, actual combat |
| ⇒ 對戰 | [ duì zhàn ] to do battle (with sb) |
| ⇒ 屢戰屢敗 | [ lǚ zhàn lǚ baì ] to suffer defeat in every battle (idiom) |
| ⇒ 屢敗屢戰 | [ lǚ baì lǚ zhàn ] to keep on fighting despite continual setbacks (idiom) |
| ⇒ 巴西戰舞 | [ bā xī zhàn wǔ ] capoeira |
| ⇒ 布匿戰爭 | [ bù nì zhàn zhēng ] the three Punic Wars (264-146 BC) between Rome and Carthage |
| ⇒ 布防迎戰 | [ bù fáng yíng zhàn ] to prepare to meet the enemy head-on |
| ⇒ 平津戰役 | [ píng jīn zhàn yì ] Pingjin Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War |
| ⇒ 征戰 | [ zhēng zhàn ] campaign, expedition |
| ⇒ 德國戰車 | [ dé guó zhàn chē ] Rammstein (German metal band) |
| ⇒ 心戰 | [ xīn zhàn ] psychological warfare, (literary) to be inwardly terrorized |
| ⇒ 心理戰 | [ xīn lǐ zhàn ] psychological warfare, psychological operations, psyop |
| ⇒ 心驚膽戰 | [ xīn jīng dǎn zhàn ] lit. heart alarmed, trembling in fear (idiom); prostrate with fear, scared witless |
| ⇒ 怛羅斯之戰 | [ dá luó sī zhī zhàn ] Battle of Talas (751), military engagement in the valley of the Talas River 塔拉斯河[Ta3 la1 si1 He2], in which Arab forces defeated Tang armies, marking the end of Tang westward expansion |
| ⇒ 惡戰 | [ è zhàn ] hard fighting, fierce battle |
| ⇒ 應戰 | [ yìng zhàn ] to take up a challenge, to face an attack and meet it |
| ⇒ 戀戰 | [ liàn zhàn ] to zealously continue fighting |
| ⇒ 戰戰兢兢 | [ zhàn zhàn jīng jīng ] trembling with fear, with fear and trepidation |
| ⇒ 戰戰慄慄 | [ zhàn zhàn lì lì ] to tremble with fear |
| ⇒ 打冷戰 | [ dǎ lěng zhan ] to shiver, to shudder |
| ⇒ 打野戰 | [ dǎ yě zhàn ] see 打野炮[da3 ye3 pao4] |
| ⇒ 抗戰 | [ kàng zhàn ] war of resistance, especially the war against Japan (1937-1945) |
| ⇒ 抗日戰爭 | [ kàng rì zhàn zhēng ] (China's) War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945) |
| ⇒ 拇戰 | [ mǔ zhàn ] finger-guessing game |
| ⇒ 拉鋸戰 | [ lā jù zhàn ] to-and-fro tussle, closely-fought contest |
| ⇒ 拖延戰術 | [ tuō yán zhàn shù ] delaying tactics, deliberate procrastination |
| ⇒ 持久戰 | [ chí jiǔ zhàn ] prolonged war, war of attrition |
| ⇒ 指戰員 | [ zhǐ zhàn yuán ] PLA commanders and fighters |
| ⇒ 挑戰 | [ zhàn ] to challenge, challenge |
| ⇒ 挑戰者 | [ zhàn zhě ] challenger |
| ⇒ 挑戰者號 | [ zhàn zhě haò ] Space Shuttle Challenger |
| ⇒ 挑燈夜戰 | [ dēng yè zhàn ] to raise a lantern and fight at night (idiom); fig. to work into the night, to burn the midnight oil |
| ⇒ 接戰 | [ jiē zhàn ] to engage in battle |
| ⇒ 搏戰 | [ bó zhàn ] to fight, to struggle, to wage war |
| ⇒ 搖戰 | [ yaó zhàn ] (literary) to shake with fear |
| ⇒ 搦戰 | [ nuò zhàn ] to challenge to battle |
| ⇒ 攻無不克，戰無不勝 | [ gōng wú bù kè zhàn wú bù shèng ] to triumph in every battle and win every fight (idiom); all-conquering, ever victorious, nothing they can't do |
| ⇒ 放射作戰 | [ fàng shè zuò zhàn ] radiological operations |
| ⇒ 敗戰 | [ baì zhàn ] to lose a war, fig. the loser (in a competition or election) |
| ⇒ 斯大林格勒戰役 | [ sī dà lín gé lè zhàn yì ] Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces |
| ⇒ 斯大林格勒會戰 | [ sī dà lín gé lè huì zhàn ] Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), also called 斯大林格勒戰役|斯大林格勒战役 |
| ⇒ 日俄戰爭 | [ rì é zhàn zhēng ] the war of 1904-1905 between Russia and Japan |
| ⇒ 星球大戰 | [ xīng qiú dà zhàn ] Star Wars |
| ⇒ 春秋戰國 | [ chūn qiū zhàn guó ] the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods |
| ⇒ 春秋戰國時代 | [ chūn qiū zhàn guó shí daì ] the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods, Eastern Zhou (770-221 BC) |
| ⇒ 普法戰爭 | [ pǔ fǎ zhàn zhēng ] Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) |
| ⇒ 會戰 | [ huì zhàn ] decisive battle, (fig.) campaign |
| ⇒ 有征無戰 | [ yoǔ zhēng wú zhàn ] to win without a fight (idiom) |
| ⇒ 朝戰 | [ chaó zhàn ] abbr. for 朝鮮戰爭|朝鲜战争[Chao2 xian3 Zhan4 zheng1], Korean War (1950-1953) |
| ⇒ 朝鮮戰爭 | [ chaó xiǎn zhàn zhēng ] Korean War (1950-1953) |
| ⇒ 板門店停戰村 | [ bǎn mén diàn tíng zhàn cūn ] Panmunjom village on the DMZ between North and South Korea |
| ⇒ 柏舉之戰 | [ baǐ jǔ zhī zhàn ] Battle of Baiju (506 BC), in which Wu 吳|吴[Wu2] scored a crushing victory over Chu 楚[Chu3] |
| ⇒ 核戰 | [ hé zhàn ] nuclear warfare |
| ⇒ 核戰斗部 | [ hé zhàn doù bù ] nuclear warhead |
| ⇒ 楚漢戰爭 | [ chǔ hàn zhàn zhēng ] Chu-Han Contention (206-202 BC), power struggle between Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] of Han and Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu |
| ⇒ 槍戰 | [ qiāng zhàn ] gun battle, firefight |
| ⇒ 橙色戰劑 | [ chéng sè zhàn jì ] Agent Orange (herbicide) |
| ⇒ 機械戰警 | [ jī xiè zhàn jǐng ] RoboCop (movie) |
| ⇒ 武警戰士 | [ wǔ jǐng zhàn shì ] armed fighters, armed police, militia |
| ⇒ 死戰 | [ sǐ zhàn ] fight to the death, desperate struggle |
| ⇒ 決戰 | [ jué zhàn ] decisive battle, to fight a decisive battle, to fight for supremacy in ... |
| ⇒ 沉著應戰 | [ chén zhuó yìng zhàn ] to remain calm in the face of adversity (idiom) |
| ⇒ 浴血苦戰 | [ yù xuè kǔ zhàn ] a blood soaked and hard-fought struggle (idiom) |
| ⇒ 海戰 | [ haǐ zhàn ] naval battle |
| ⇒ 海灣戰爭 | [ haǐ wān zhàn zhēng ] (Persian) Gulf War |
| ⇒ 海軍陸戰隊 | [ haǐ jūn lù zhàn duì ] marine corps, marines |
| ⇒ 消耗戰 | [ haò zhàn ] war of attrition |
| ⇒ 淮海戰役 | [ haǐ zhàn yì ] Huaihai Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War, considered the determining battle of the war |
| ⇒ 混戰 | [ hùn zhàn ] chaotic warfare, confused fighting, melee, to join in such fighting |
| ⇒ 激戰 | [ jī zhàn ] to fight fiercely, fierce battle |
| ⇒ 炮戰 | [ paò zhàn ] artillery bombardment, artillery battle |
| ⇒ 烽煙四起，戰火紛飛 | [ fēng yān sì qǐ zhàn huǒ fēn feī ] lit. fire beacons in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war |
| ⇒ 無名戰士墓 | [ wú míng zhàn shì mù ] Tomb of the Unknown Soldier |
| ⇒ 無名戰死 | [ wú míng zhàn sǐ ] the unknown soldier (symbolizing war dead) |
| ⇒ 爭奪戰 | [ zhēng duó zhàn ] struggle |
| ⇒ 爭戰 | [ zhēng zhàn ] fight |
| ⇒ 狂戰士 | [ kuáng zhàn shì ] berserker (Norse warrior or fantasy role-playing character) |
| ⇒ 獨立戰爭 | [ dú lì zhàn zhēng ] war of independence |
| ⇒ 玫瑰戰爭 | [ meí guī zhàn zhēng ] The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) |
| ⇒ 瓜達卡納爾戰役 | [ guā dá kǎ nà ěr zhàn yì ] battle of Guadalcanal of late 1942, the turning point of the war in the Pacific |
| ⇒ 生命不息，戰鬥不止 | [ shēng mìng bù xī zhàn doù bù zhǐ ] while there is life, the fight continues (idiom); to fight to the last |
| ⇒ 生物戰 | [ shēng wù zhàn ] germ warfare, biological warfare |
| ⇒ 生物戰劑 | [ shēng wù zhàn jì ] biological agent, biological warfare agent |
| ⇒ 甲午戰爭 | [ jiǎ wǔ zhàn zhēng ] First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) |
| ⇒ 甲級戰犯 | [ jiǎ jí zhàn fàn ] a grade A war criminal |
| ⇒ 白刃戰 | [ baí rèn zhàn ] hand-to-hand fighting |
| ⇒ 白色戰劑 | [ baí sè zhàn jì ] Agent White |
| ⇒ 白衣戰士 | [ baí yī zhàn shì ] warrior in white, medical worker |
| ⇒ 百團大戰 | [ baǐ tuán dà zhàn ] Hundred Regiments offensive of August-December 1940, a large scale offensive against the Japanese by the communists |
| ⇒ 百戰不殆 | [ baǐ zhàn bù daì ] to come unscathed through a hundred battles (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3]); to win every fight |
| ⇒ 百戰百勝 | [ baǐ zhàn baǐ shèng ] to emerge victorious in every battle, to be ever-victorious |
| ⇒ 皖系戰敗 | [ wǎn xì zhàn baì ] Anhui faction of Northern Warlords (1912-c. 1920), led by Duan Qirui 段祺瑞 with Japanese support |
| ⇒ 直皖戰爭 | [ zhí wǎn zhàn zhēng ] war of 1920 between Northern Warlords, in which the Zhili faction beat the Anhui faction and took over the Beijing government |
| ⇒ 知己知彼，百戰不殆 | [ zhī jǐ zhī bǐ baǐ zhàn bù daì ] know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3]) |
| ⇒ 知彼知己，百戰不殆 | [ zhī bǐ zhī jǐ baǐ zhàn bù daì ] knowing the enemy and yourself will get you unscathed through a hundred battles (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War") |
| ⇒ 空戰 | [ kōng zhàn ] air war, air warfare |
| ⇒ 第一次世界大戰 | [ dì yī cì shì jiè dà zhàn ] World War One |
| ⇒ 第二次世界大戰 | [ dì èr cì shì jiè dà zhàn ] World War II |
| ⇒ 筆戰 | [ bǐ zhàn ] written polemics |
| ⇒ 細菌戰 | [ xì jūn zhàn ] biological warfare, germ warfare |
| ⇒ 終戰 | [ zhōng zhàn ] end of the war |
| ⇒ 統一戰線 | [ tǒng yī zhàn xiàn ] united front |
| ⇒ 統一戰線工作部 | [ tǒng yī zhàn xiàn gōng zuò bù ] United Front Work Department of CCP Central Committee (UFWD) |
| ⇒ 統戰 | [ tǒng zhàn ] united front (abbr. for 統一戰線|统一战线[tong3 yi1 zhan4 xian4]) |
| ⇒ 統戰部 | [ tǒng zhàn bù ] United Front Work Department of CCP Central Committee (UFWD), abbr. for 統一戰線工作部|统一战线工作部[Tong3 yi1 Zhan4 xian4 Gong1 zuo4 bu4] |
| ⇒ 美國獨立戰爭 | [ meǐ guó dú lì zhàn zhēng ] American War of Independence (1775-1783) |
| ⇒ 聖戰 | [ shèng zhàn ] Holy war, jihad |
| ⇒ 肉搏戰 | [ roù bó zhàn ] hand-to-hand combat |
| ⇒ 背水一戰 | [ beì shuǐ yī zhàn ] lit. fight with one's back to the river (idiom); fig. to fight to win or die |
| ⇒ 膽戰 | [ dǎn zhàn ] to tremble with fear |
| ⇒ 膽戰心驚 | [ dǎn zhàn xīn jīng ] to tremble with fear (idiom), scared witless |
| ⇒ 臨戰 | [ lín zhàn ] just before the contest, on the eve of war |
| ⇒ 舌戰 | [ shé zhàn ] verbal sparring, duel of words |
| ⇒ 航空母艦戰鬥群 | [ háng kōng mǔ jiàn zhàn doù qún ] carrier-based vanguard group (CBVG), naval battle group led by an aircraft carrier |
| ⇒ 苦戰 | [ kǔ zhàn ] bitter struggle, hard battle, arduous effort |
| ⇒ 蔣桂戰爭 | [ jiǎng guì zhàn zhēng ] confrontation of 1929 between Chiang Kaishek and the Guangxi warlord faction |
| ⇒ 薩爾滸之戰 | [ sà ěr hǔ zhī zhàn ] Battle of Sarhu in 1619, in which the Manchus under Nurhaci 努爾哈赤|努尔哈赤[Nu3 er3 ha1 chi4] crushed four Ming armies |
| ⇒ 血戰 | [ xuè zhàn ] bloody battle |
| ⇒ 觀戰 | [ guān zhàn ] to watch from the sidelines |
| ⇒ 解放戰爭 | [ jiě fàng zhàn zhēng ] War of Liberation (1945-49), after which the Communists 共產黨武裝|共产党武装 under Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 took over from the Nationalists 國民政府|国民政府 under Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石 |
| ⇒ 論戰 | [ lùn zhàn ] to debate, to contend, polemics |
| ⇒ 護國戰 | [ hù guó zhàn ] National Protection War or Campaign to Defend the Republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3] as emperor |
| ⇒ 護國戰爭 | [ hù guó zhàn zhēng ] National Protection War or Campaign to Defend the Republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3] as emperor |
| ⇒ 護法戰爭 | [ hù fǎ zhàn zhēng ] National protection war or Campaign to defend the republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai as emperor |
| ⇒ 貿易戰 | [ maò yì zhàn ] trade war |
| ⇒ 贖罪日戰爭 | [ shú zuì rì zhàn zhēng ] the Yom Kippur war of October 1973 between Israel and her Arab neighbors |
| ⇒ 赤壁之戰 | [ chì bì zhī zhàn ] Battle of Redcliff of 208 at Chibi in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区[Huang2 zhou1 qu1] of Huanggang city 黃岡|黄冈[Huang2 gang1], a decisive defeat of Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1] at the hands of southern kingdom of Wu, famous episode in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4] |
| ⇒ 超限戰 | [ chaō xiàn zhàn ] unrestricted warfare (originally the title of a Chinese book published in 1999, later used to refer to war by any means, military or non-military, including cyberwarfare, economic warfare etc) |
| ⇒ 越南戰爭 | [ yuè nán zhàn zhēng ] Vietnam War (1955-1975) |
| ⇒ 越戰 | [ yuè zhàn ] Vietnam War (1955-1975) |
| ⇒ 身經百戰 | [ shēn jīng baǐ zhàn ] lit. veteran of a hundred battles (idiom), fig. experienced, seasoned |
| ⇒ 軍閥混戰 | [ jūn fá hùn zhàn ] incessant fighting between warlords |
| ⇒ 轉戰 | [ zhuǎn zhàn ] to fight in one place after another |
| ⇒ 轉戰千里 | [ zhuǎn zhàn qiān lǐ ] fighting everywhere over a thousand miles (idiom); constant fighting across the country, never-ending struggle |
| ⇒ 迎戰 | [ yíng zhàn ] to meet the enemy head-on |
| ⇒ 迎接挑戰 | [ yíng jiē zhàn ] to meet a challenge |
| ⇒ 速戰速決 | [ sù zhàn sù jué ] a blitzkrieg strategy (idiom), to resolve sth in the shortest time possible, to get sth done quickly |
| ⇒ 連戰 | [ lián zhàn ] Lien Chan (1936-), Taiwanese politician, former vice-president and chairman of Guomintang |
| ⇒ 連戰連勝 | [ lián zhàn lián shèng ] fighting and winning a series of battles (idiom); ever victorious |
| ⇒ 遊擊戰 | [ yoú jī zhàn ] guerrilla warfare |
| ⇒ 運動戰 | [ yùn dòng zhàn ] mobile warfare |
| ⇒ 遭遇戰 | [ zaō yù zhàn ] (military) encounter, skirmish |
| ⇒ 選戰 | [ xuǎn zhàn ] election campaign |
| ⇒ 遼瀋戰役 | [ shěn zhàn yì ] Liaoshen Campaign (Sep-Nov 1948), the first of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War |
| ⇒ 酣戰 | [ hān zhàn ] to fight lustily |
| ⇒ 重披戰袍 | [ chóng pī zhàn paó ] (fig.) to re-enter the fray, to return to a field of activity after a period of absence |
| ⇒ 野戰 | [ yě zhàn ] battlefield operation, paintball |
| ⇒ 野戰軍 | [ yě zhàn jūn ] field army |
| ⇒ 鏖戰 | [ aó zhàn ] bitter fighting, a violent battle |
| ⇒ 長平之戰 | [ cháng píng zhī zhàn ] Battle of Changping of 260 BC, at which the Qin army 秦軍|秦军[Qin2 jun1] encircled and annihilated a Zhao army of 400,000 |
| ⇒ 閃擊戰 | [ shǎn jī zhàn ] lightning war, Blitzkrieg |
| ⇒ 閃電戰 | [ shǎn diàn zhàn ] blitzkrieg, blitz |
| ⇒ 開戰 | [ kaī zhàn ] to start a war, to make war, to battle against |
| ⇒ 陣亡戰士紀念日 | [ zhèn wáng zhàn shì jì niàn rì ] Memorial Day (American holiday) |
| ⇒ 陸戰棋 | [ lù zhàn qí ] see 軍棋|军棋[jun1 qi2] |
| ⇒ 韓戰 | [ hán zhàn ] Korean War (1950-1953) |
| ⇒ 飽餐戰飯 | [ baǒ cān zhàn fàn ] to fill one's belly before the battle (idiom) |
| ⇒ 首戰告捷 | [ shoǔ zhàn gaò jié ] to win the first battle |
| ⇒ 驍勇善戰 | [ yǒng shàn zhàn ] to be brave and good at fighting (idiom) |
| ⇒ 鴉片戰爭 | [ yā piàn zhàn zhēng ] the Opium Wars of 1840-1842 and 1860-1861 |