HSK 6 · Society

战斗 zhàndòu “to fight” in Chinese

Traditional 戰鬥

What 战斗 means

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

Measure word 场 cháng or 次 cì · 一场战斗 yì cháng zhàndòu

How to say 战斗

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale战zhàn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale斗dòu4th tone, falling

战斗 in a sentence

  1. 这是战斗发生的地方。

    Zhè shì zhàndòu fāshēng de dìfang.

    This is where the battle took place.

    Sentence #335509 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我们已经赢得了这场战斗。

    Wǒmen yǐjīng yíngdé le zhè chǎng zhàndòu.

    We’ve already won this battle.

    Sentence #770999 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 我会战斗到最后一口气。

    Wǒ huì zhàndòu dào zuìhòu yìkǒuqì.

    I’ll fight to my last breath.

    Sentence #335838 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 战斗 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 战 (zhàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
战zhànto fight
  • 占to divine · zhānSound part
  • 戈halberd · gēMeaning part

戈 hints at the meaning (halberd); 占 (zhān) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhàn.

The character 斗 (dòu) drawn as one shape
斗dòuto fight

斗 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 战斗

战 9 strokes · 斗 4 strokes

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战斗 (zhàndòu) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 战斗 (zhàndòu). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 战斗

Words with 战

挑战tiǎozhàn · to challenge战争zhànzhēng · war战役zhànyì · battle战略zhànlüè · strategy战术zhànshù · tactics

Words with 斗

奋斗fèndòu · to strive泰斗tàidǒu · leading authority搏斗bódòu · to fight斗争dòuzhēng · struggle

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FAQs

战斗 (zhàndòu) means “to fight” or “battle”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhàndòu: zhàn with a 4th tone, then dòu with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 战斗 is written 戰鬥. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 场 (cháng) or 次 (cì). For example, one to fight is 一场战斗 (yì cháng zhàndòu).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhandou with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 战斗 from the suggestions. Typing zhandou into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
战斗 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.