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打仗

dǎ zhàng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

打仗 (dǎ zhàng) means "to fight a battle". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 打仗 means

1. to fight a battle
2. to go to war

The characters in 打仗

• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 仗zhàngweaponry; to hold (a weapon); to wield

Example sentences

• 我们在跟日本打仗。
  Wǒmen zài gēn Rìběn dǎzhàng.
  We're at war with Japan.
• 很多年轻人去了打仗。
  Hěn duō niánqīngrén qù le dǎzhàng.
  Many young men went to war.
• 饿着肚子是没法打仗的。
  You can't fight on an empty stomach.
• 战争不是轻易就应该开始的，所以也不能够因为像打仗就改变宪法。
  Zhànzhēng bù shì qīngyì jiù yīnggāi kāishǐ de, suǒyǐ yě bù nénggòu yīnwèi xiàng dǎzhàng jiù gǎibiàn xiànfǎ.
  War isn't something to be done lightly, also changing the constitution isn't something that should be done because "I just really want to go to war".

Where 打仗 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dǎ zhàng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.