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开战

kāi zhàn

2-character word Traditional 開戰

What 开战 means

1. to start a war
2. to make war
3. to battle against

The characters in 开战

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 战zhànto fight; fight; war

Sounds the same

Read kāi zhàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 开站to put a new bus or railway station into operation
• 开绽to come unsewn