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戦い

たたかい

war, battle

Mnemonic

戦う stopped just short of being a verb. Not the fighting: the thing itself, with a name and a date and a field somebody can point at. The same attacker たたか, now in a history book: たたかい.

Worth knowing

戦う たたかう is to fight. 戦い is the fight as a noun, and 戦争 せんそう is a war.

Built from

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

Words sharing these kanji

to wage war, to fight tactic, strategy battle, fight war, battle

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