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戦闘

せんとう

battle, fight

Mnemonic

The war as a whole is one thing. This is the part where people are actually going at each other. The same sen せん as 戦争, with a toe とう in it, and the town is full of the wounded: せんとう.

Worth knowing

戦い たたかい is the battle in the broad sense. 戦闘 is the combat itself, and 作戦 さくせん is the plan behind it.

Built from

war, fight
戈 a halberd stood up on the right, the weapon half of the character.
fight
門 a gate with two of them going at each other inside it. The older form put weapons in their hands.

Words sharing these kanji

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

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