HSK 6 · Society

战役 zhànyì “battle” in Chinese

Traditional 戰役

What 战役 means

  1. battle
  2. military campaign

How to say 战役

  • 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役yì4th tone, falling

战役 in a sentence

  1. 这里曾是黑斯廷斯战役的战场。

    Zhèlǐ céng shì Hēisītíngsī zhànyì de zhànchǎng.

    This is where the Battle of Hastings was fought.

    Sentence #1746023 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这场战役让拿破仑称霸了整个欧洲。

    Zhè chǎng zhànyì ràng Nápòlún chēngbà le zhěnggè Ōuzhōu.

    This battle made Napoleon master of all Europe.

    Sentence #425949 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 战役 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 役 (yì) with each of its parts in a different colour
役yìforced labour
  • 彳step · chì
  • 殳weapon · shū

How to write 战役

战 9 strokes · 役 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 战役

Words with 战

挑战tiǎozhàn · to challenge战争zhànzhēng · war战斗zhàndòu · to fight战略zhànlüè · strategy战术zhànshù · tactics

More words: Society & Law

贼zéi · thief战斗zhàndòu · to fight章程zhāngchéng · regulations占领zhànlǐng · to occupy诈骗zhàpiàn · to defraud阵地zhèndì · position (military)政策zhèngcè · policy争端zhēngduān · dispute

FAQs

战役 (zhànyì) means “battle” or “military campaign”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhànyì: zhàn with a 4th tone, then yì 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, 战役 is written 戰役. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhanyi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 战役 from the suggestions. Typing zhanyi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
战役 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.