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战斗

zhàn dòu

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 戰鬥 Measure word 场、次

战斗 (zhàn dòu) means "to fight". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 战斗 means

1. to fight
2. to engage in combat
3. struggle
4. battle

The characters in 战斗

• 战zhànto fight; fight; war
• 斗dòuto fight; to struggle; to condemn

Example sentences

• 我会战斗至死。
  I will fight to the death.
• 他们应该战斗。
  They should fight.
• 她们应该战斗。
  They should fight.
• 像男人一样战斗！
  Fight like a man!
• 他在为生活战斗。
  He's fighting for his life.
• 他们为祖国而战斗。
  Tāmen wèi zǔguó ér zhàndòu.
  They fought for the sake of their country.

Words starting with 战斗

• 战斗机zhàn dòu jīfighter (aircraft)
• 战斗力zhàn dòu lìfighting strength
• 战斗营zhàn dòu yíngboot camp
• 战斗群zhàn dòu qúnbattle group; naval formation headed by an aircraft carrier
• 战斗者zhàn dòu zhěfighter
• 战斗部zhàn dòu bùwarhead
• 战斗舰zhàn dòu jiànbattleship

Words containing 战斗

• 核战斗部hé zhàn dòu bùnuclear warhead
• 化学战斗部huà xué zhàn dòu bùchemical warhead
• 航空母舰战斗群háng kōng mǔ jiàn zhàn dòu qúncarrier-based vanguard group (CBVG); naval battle group led by an aircraft carrier
• 宙斯盾战斗系统Zhòu sī dùn Zhàn dòu Xì tǒngAegis Combat System (weapons system developed for the US Navy)
• 生命不息，战斗不止shēng mìng bù xī , zhàn dòu bù zhǐwhile there is life, the fight continues (idiom); to fight to the last

Sounds the same

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

• 栈豆fodder

Where 战斗 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhàn–zhǎo (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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