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戦 — war, battle, match

せん戦 war

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 13 strokes war

U+6226 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #78 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2079 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

war
battle
match

word

せん sen On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

戦(せん) sen war 戦(せん) 争(そう) sensou war 戦(せん) 後(ご) sengo postwar 作(さく) 戦(せん) sakusen strategy 大(たい) 戦(せん) taisen great war 観(かん) 戦(せん) kansen watching a game 対(たい) 戦(せん) taisen match 戦(せん) 前(ぜん) senzen prewar

たたか tataka Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

戦(たたか) う tatakau to fight 戦(たたか) い tatakai battle

Appears in idioms

人海戦術四字熟語

person, sea, war, art

速戦即決四字熟語

quick, war, instant, decide

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

たん単 simple

戈 halberd

Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#62 戈 halberd