作戦

さくせん

tactic, strategy

Mnemonic

You make the plan before the fight rather than during it. A sack さく of them, and the same attacker せん as 戦う, and every one of them knows their part by Saturday: さくせん.

Worth knowing

Shares 戦 with 戦うたたかう and 戦闘せんとう, which are the fighting. 作戦 is the thinking done beforehand.

Built from

作

make, produce

亻 a person beside 乍, a shape that began as notches cut into wood.

戦

war, fight

戈 a halberd stood up on the right, the weapon half of the character.

Words sharing these kanji

作る to make, to create 作業 work, operation 戦う to wage war, to fight 戦い war, battle 戦闘 battle, fight 戦争 war, battle

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