| Simplified | Traditional | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 仗 | 仗 | zhàng | - weaponry - to hold (a weapon) - to wield - to rely on - to depend on - war - battle |
| 役 | 役 | yì | - forced labor - corvée - obligatory task - military service - to use as servant - to enserf - servant (old) - war - campaign - battle |
| 战 | 戰 | zhàn | - to fight - fight - war - battle |
| 兵戈 | 兵戈 | bīnggē | - weapons - arms - fighting - war |
| 戎机 | 戎機 | róngjī | - opportunity for a fight - war |
| 战事 | 戰事 | zhànshì | - war - hostilities - fighting |
| 战争 | 戰爭 | zhànzhēng | - war - conflict - CL:場|场[chang2],次[ci4] |
| 争斗 | 爭鬥 | zhēngdòu | - struggle - war |
| 俘 | 俘 | fú | - to take prisoner - prisoner of war |
| 殇 | 殤 | shāng | - to die in childhood - war dead |
| 祃 | 禡 | mà | - (arch.) religious ritual on setting out for war |
| 虏 | 虜 | lǔ | - prisoner of war - to capture - to take prisoner - (old) northern barbarian - slave |
| 车 | 車 | jū | - war chariot (archaic) - rook (in Chinese chess) - rook (in chess) |
| 軘 | 軘 | tún | - war chariot |
| 輣 | 輣 | péng | - war chariot (archaic) |
| 轒 | 轒 | fén | - war chariot |
| 交兵 | 交兵 | jiāobīng | - in a state of war |
| 交战 | 交戰 | jiāozhàn | - to fight - to wage war |
| 倒戈 | 倒戈 | dǎogē | - to change sides in a war - turncoat |
| 备战 | 備戰 | bèizhàn | - prepared against war - to prepare for war - warmongering |
| 内战 | 內戰 | nèizhàn | - civil war |
| 兵乱 | 兵亂 | bīngluàn | - confusion of war - turmoil of war |
| 兵书 | 兵書 | bīngshū | - a book on the art of war |
| 兵法 | 兵法 | bīngfǎ | - art of war - military strategy and tactics |
| 冷战 | 冷戰 | lěngzhàn | - cold war - (coll.) shiver - shudder |
| 参战 | 參戰 | cānzhàn | - to go to war - to engage in war |
| 商战 | 商戰 | shāngzhàn | - trade war |
| 大战 | 大戰 | dàzhàn | - great war |
| 孤拔 | 孤拔 | Gūbá | - Amédée Courbet (1826-1885), a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War |
| 宣战 | 宣戰 | xuānzhàn | - to declare war |
| 对仗 | 對仗 | duìzhàng | - antithesis (two lines of poetry matching in sense and sound) - to fight - to wage war |
| 干戈 | 干戈 | gāngē | - weapons of war - arms |
| 延安 | 延安 | Yánān | - Yan'an prefecture level city in Shaanxi, communist headquarters during the war |
| 征旆 | 征旆 | zhēngpèi | - pennant used on expedition - war pennant |
| 战乱 | 戰亂 | zhànluàn | - chaos of war |
| 战俘 | 戰俘 | zhànfú | - prisoner of war |
| 战备 | 戰備 | zhànbèi | - war preparation |
| 战区 | 戰區 | zhànqū | - war zone - (military) theater of operations |
| 战后 | 戰後 | zhànhòu | - after the war - post-war |
| 战败 | 戰敗 | zhànbài | - to lose a war |
| 战机 | 戰機 | zhànjī | - opportunity in a battle - fighter aircraft - war secret |
| 战火 | 戰火 | zhànhuǒ | - conflagration - the fire of war |
| 战犯 | 戰犯 | zhànfàn | - war criminal |
| 战祸 | 戰禍 | zhànhuò | - disaster of war |
| 战车 | 戰車 | zhànchē | - war chariot - tank |
| 打仗 | 打仗 | dǎzhàng | - to fight a battle - to go to war |
| 抗战 | 抗戰 | kàngzhàn | - war of resistance, especially the war against Japan (1937-1945) |
| 搏战 | 搏戰 | bózhàn | - to fight - to struggle - to wage war |
| 败战 | 敗戰 | bàizhàn | - to lose a war - fig. the loser (in a competition or election) |
| 混战 | 混戰 | hùnzhàn | - civil war - muddled warfare - rough and tumble - battle royal - free fight |
| 烽燧 | 烽燧 | fēngsuì | - fire beacon towers (historical sites on the Great Wall and in Xinjiang) - fig. times of war |
| 益民 | 益民 | yìmín | - good citizens - the right side in a civil war |
| 空战 | 空戰 | kōngzhàn | - air war - air warfare |
| 终战 | 終戰 | zhōngzhàn | - end of war - armistice - cf Japanese surrender in WWII on 15th August 1945 |
| 圣战 | 聖戰 | shèngzhàn | - Holy war - jihad |
| 临战 | 臨戰 | línzhàn | - just before the contest - on the eve of war |
| 越战 | 越戰 | Yuèzhàn | - Vietnam War |
| 开仗 | 開仗 | kāizhàng | - to start a war - to open hostilities |
| 开战 | 開戰 | kāizhàn | - to start a war - to make war - to battle against |
| 魏巍 | 魏巍 | WèiWēi | - Wei Wei (1920-2008), novelist and poet, author of award-winning novel The East 東方|东方 about the Korean war |
| 鹰派 | 鷹派 | yīngpài | - hawk faction (opposite: 鸽派, doves) - fierce and combative party - war party - warmongers |
| 口角战 | 口角戰 | kǒujiǎozhàn | - war of words |
| 延安市 | 延安市 | Yánānshì | - Yán'ān prefecture level city in Shaanxi 陝西|陕西, communist headquarters during the war |
| 张自忠 | 張自忠 | ZhāngZìzhōng | - Zhang Zizhong (1891-1940), Chinese National Revolutionary Army general during the Second Sino-Japanese War |
| 战利品 | 戰利品 | zhànlìpǐn | - spoils of war |
| 战争罪 | 戰爭罪 | zhànzhēngzuì | - war crime |
| 持久战 | 持久戰 | chíjiǔzhàn | - prolonged war - war of attrition |
| 柯棣华 | 柯棣華 | Kēdìhuá | - Dwarkanath Kotnis (1910-1942), one of five Indian doctors sent to China to provide medical assistance during the Second Sino-Japanese War |
| 消耗战 | 消耗戰 | xiāohàozhàn | - war of attrition |
| 贸易战 | 貿易戰 | màoyìzhàn | - trade war |
| 闪击战 | 閃擊戰 | shǎnjīzhàn | - lightning war - Blitzkrieg |
| 闪电战 | 閃電戰 | shǎndiànzhàn | - Blitzkrieg - lightning war |
| 阿瑞斯 | 阿瑞斯 | Āruìsī | - Ares, Greek god of war - Mars |
| 不宣而战 | 不宣而戰 | bùxuānérzhàn | - open hostilities without declaring war - start an undeclared war |
| 世界大战 | 世界大戰 | shìjièdàzhàn | - world war |
| 中越战争 | 中越戰爭 | ZhōngYuèZhànzhēng | - the Sino-Vietnamese War, fought between the PRC and Vietnam in 1979 - also known as the Third Indochina War |
| 伯里克利 | 伯里克利 | Bólǐkèlì | - Pericles (c. 495-429 BC), Athenian strategist and politician before and at the start of the Peloponnesian war |
| 兵不厌诈 | 兵不厭詐 | bīngbùyànzhà | - there can never be too much deception in war - in war nothing is too deceitful - all's fair in war |
| 兵戈扰攘 | 兵戈擾攘 | bīnggērǎorǎng | - arms and confusion (idiom); turmoil of war |
| 兵荒马乱 | 兵荒馬亂 | bīnghuāngmǎluàn | - soldiers munity and troops rebel (idiom); turmoil and chaos of war |
| 冷战以后 | 冷戰以後 | lěngzhànyǐhòu | - post-Cold War |
| 南征北伐 | 南征北伐 | nánzhēngběifá | - war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters |
| 南征北战 | 南征北戰 | nánzhēngběizhàn | - war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters |
| 南征北讨 | 南征北討 | nánzhēngběitǎo | - war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters |
| 南昌起义 | 南昌起義 | NánchāngQǐyì | - Nanchang Uprising, 1st August 1927, the beginning of military revolt by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War |
| 反恐战争 | 反恐戰爭 | fǎnkǒngzhànzhēng | - war on terrorism |
| 反袁斗争 | 反袁鬥爭 | fǎnYuándòuzhēng | - war of 1915 against Yuan Shikai and for the Republic |
| 唇枪舌战 | 唇槍舌戰 | chúnqiāngshézhàn | - war of words |
| 国内战争 | 國內戰爭 | guónèizhànzhēng | - civil war - internal struggle |
| 平津战役 | 平津戰役 | PíngjīnZhànyì | - 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 |
| 戎事倥偬 | 戎事倥傯 | róngshìkǒngzǒng | - a time of military urgency - war crisis |
| 戎马生涯 | 戎馬生涯 | róngmǎshēngyá | - army life (idiom) - the experience of war |
| 战火纷飞 | 戰火紛飛 | zhànhuǒfēnfēi | - fire of war everywhere (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war |
| 擦枪走火 | 擦槍走火 | cāqiāngzǒuhuǒ | - to shoot accidentally while polishing a gun - (fig.) a minor incident that sparks a war |
| 东征西怨 | 東征西怨 | dōngzhēngxīyuàn | - war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters |
| 东征西讨 | 東征西討 | dōngzhēngxītǎo | - war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters |
| 东讨西征 | 東討西征 | dōngtǎoxīzhēng | - war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters |
| 海湾战争 | 海灣戰爭 | HǎiwānZhànzhēng | - (Persian) Gulf War |
| 淮海战役 | 淮海戰役 | HuáihǎiZhànyì | - 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 |
| 烽火四起 | 烽火四起 | fēnghuǒsìqǐ | - the fire of war in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war |
| 烽烟四起 | 烽煙四起 | fēngyānsìqǐ | - lit. fire beacons in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war |
| 烽烟遍地 | 烽煙遍地 | fēngyānbiàndì | - fire beacons on all sides (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war |
| 狼烟四起 | 狼煙四起 | lángyānsìqǐ | - fire beacons on all sides (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war |
| 独立战争 | 獨立戰爭 | dúlìzhànzhēng | - war of independence |
| 直皖战争 | 直皖戰爭 | ZhíWǎnzhànzhēng | - war of 1920 between Northern Warlords, in which the Zhili faction beat the Anhui faction and took over the Beijing government |
| 炮火连天 | 砲火連天 | pàohuǒliántiān | - cannon firing for days on end (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war |
| 积草屯粮 | 積草屯糧 | jīcǎotúnliáng | - to store up provisions against a war |
| 解放战争 | 解放戰爭 | JiěfàngZhànzhēng | - 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 |
| 越南战争 | 越南戰爭 | YuènánZhànzhēng | - Vietnam War - Vietnam Conflict |
| 军事演习 | 軍事演習 | jūnshìyǎnxí | - military exercise - war game |
| 辽沈战役 | 遼瀋戰役 | LiáoshěnZhànyì | - 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 |
| 靖难之役 | 靖難之役 | jìngnánzhīyì | - war of 1402 between successors of the first Ming Emperor |
| 麦克阿瑟 | 麥克阿瑟 | Màikèāsè | - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war |
| 培里克利斯 | 培里克利斯 | Péilǐkèlìsī | - Pericles (c. 495-429 BC), Athenian strategist and politician before and at the start of the Peloponnesian war - also written 伯里克利[Bo2 li3 ke4 li4] |
| 战争与和平 | 戰爭與和平 | ZhànzhēngyǔHépíng | - War and Peace by Tolstoy 托爾斯泰|托尔斯泰 |
| 天时地利人和 | 天時地利人和 | tiānshídìlìrénhé | - the time is right, geographical and social conditions are favorable (idiom); a good time to go to war |
| 烽烟四起，战火纷飞 | 烽煙四起，戰火紛飛 | fēngyānsìqǐ,zhànhuǒfēnfēi | - lit. fire beacons in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war |
| 道格拉斯・麦克阿瑟 | 道格拉斯・麥克阿瑟 | Dàogélāsī·Màikèāsè | - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war |
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