"(fig.) war" Chinese-English Dictionary

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
戎马戎馬	róng mǎ	warhorse / armed forces / troops / (fig.) war / warfare	syn

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
大战大戰	dà zhàn	war / to wage war	syn
开战開戰	kāi zhàn	to start a war / to make war / to battle against	syn
冷战冷戰	lěng zhàn	cold war / (fig.) strained relationship / to be barely on speaking terms
开花開花	kāi huā	to bloom / to blossom / to flower / (fig.) to burst / to split open / (fig.) to burst with joy / (fig.) to spring up everywhere / to flourish	syn
参战參戰	cān zhàn	to go to war / to engage in war
热腾腾熱騰騰	rè téng téng	steaming hot / (fig.) bustling / hectic / (fig.) excited / stirred up / (fig.) created only a short time before / freshly minted / hot off the press / (coll.) also pr. [re4 teng1 teng1]	syn
备战備戰	bèi zhàn	prepared against war / to prepare for war / warmongering	syn
拔河	bá hé	tug-of-war / to take part in a tug-of-war
持久战持久戰	chí jiǔ zhàn	prolonged war / war of attrition
大动干戈大動干戈	dà dòng gān gē	lit. to go to war (idiom) / fig. to make a big fuss over sth	syn
抗战抗戰	kàng zhàn	war of resistance, especially the war against Japan (1937-1945)
汗马功劳汗馬功勞	hàn mǎ gōng láo	war exploits / (fig.) heroic contribution	syn
靖国神社靖國神社	jìng guó shén shè	Yasukuni Shrine, Shinto shrine in Tokyo to Japanese war dead, controversial as burial ground of several Class A war criminals
化干戈为玉帛化幹戈為玉帛	huà gān gē wéi yù bó	lit. to exchange weapons of war for gifts of jade and silk (idiom) / fig. to turn hostility into friendship	syn
淮海战役淮海戰役	huái hǎi zhàn yì	Huaihai Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War, considered the determining battle of the war
汗马汗馬	hàn mǎ	(lit.) to exert one's horse / (fig.) war exploits / warhorse (abbr. for 汗血馬\|汗血马[han4 xue4 ma3])
车車	jū	war chariot (archaic) / rook (in Chinese chess) / rook (in chess)	syn
战争戰爭	zhàn zhēng	war / conflict / CL:場\|场[chang2],次[ci4]	syn
味道	wèi dao	flavor / taste / (fig.) feeling (of ...) / sense (of ...) / hint (of ...) / (fig.) interest / delight / (dialect) smell / odor	syn
战戰	zhàn	to fight / fight / war / battle	syn
规矩規矩	guī ju	lit. compass and set square / fig. established standard / rule / customs / practices / fig. upright and honest / well-behaved	syn
大事	dà shì	major event / major political event (war or change of regime) / major social event (wedding or funeral) / (do sth) in a big way / CL:件[jian4],樁\|桩[zhuang1]	syn
打仗	dǎ zhàng	to fight a battle / to go to war	syn
发烧發燒	fā shāo	to have a high temperature (from illness) / to have a fever / (fig.) to be fascinated with / to obsess over / (fig.) flourishing / thriving / popular	syn
目光	mù guāng	gaze / (fig.) attention / expression in one's eyes / look / (lit. and fig.) sight / vision	syn
战利品戰利品	zhàn lì pǐn	spoils of war
战机戰機	zhàn jī	opportunity in a battle / fighter aircraft / war secret
出轨出軌	chū guǐ	to be derailed / to go off the rails / (fig.) to overstep the bounds / (fig.) to have an extramarital affair
内战內戰	nèi zhàn	civil war	syn
塑造	sù zào	to model / to mold / (fig.) to create (a character, a market, an image etc) / (fig.) (literature) to portray (in words)	syn
二战二戰	èr zhàn	World War II
世界大战世界大戰	shì jiè dà zhàn	world war
搅和攪和	jiǎo huo	to mix / to blend / (fig.) to spoil / to mess up things / (fig.) to run around with (sb) / to get involved with / to mix (with other people)	syn
交战交戰	jiāo zhàn	to fight / to wage war	syn
战俘戰俘	zhàn fú	prisoner of war	syn
越战越戰	yuè zhàn	Vietnam War (1955-1975)
战后戰後	zhàn hòu	after the war / postwar
宣战宣戰	xuān zhàn	to declare war	syn
战车戰車	zhàn chē	war chariot / tank
战火戰火	zhàn huǒ	the flames of war	syn
战败戰敗	zhàn bài	to lose a war	syn
鱼肉魚肉	yú ròu	flesh of fish / fish and meat / (fig.) victims of oppression / (fig.) to cruelly oppress (i.e. to treat like flesh to be carved up)	syn
战事戰事	zhàn shì	war / hostilities / fighting	syn
战俘营戰俘營	zhàn fú yíng	prisoner-of-war camp / POW camp
战犯戰犯	zhàn fàn	war criminal	syn
遣返	qiǎn fǎn	to repatriate (e.g. prisoners of war) / to send back
战区戰區	zhàn qū	war zone / combat zone / (military) theater of operations	syn
总动员總動員	zǒng dòng yuán	general mobilization (for war etc)	syn
波恩	bō ēn	Bonn, a small town on the Rhine, Cold War capital of West Germany 1949-1990
走后门走後門	zǒu hòu mén	(lit.) to enter through the back door / (fig.) to pull strings / to use connections / (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex	syn
战备戰備	zhàn bèi	war preparation
倒戈	dǎo gē	to change sides in a war / turncoat	syn
戴高乐戴高樂	dài gāo lè	Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970), French general and politician, leader of the Free French during World War II and president of the Republic 1959-1969
挂钩掛鉤	guà gōu	to couple / to link / to hook together / (fig.) (preceded by 與\|与[yu3] + {entity}) to establish contact (with {entity}) / (Tw) to collude (with {entity}) / (fig.) to link (marketing efforts with production etc) / to peg (welfare payments to inflation etc) / to tie (remuneration to performance etc) / hook (on which to hang sth) / latch hook / coupling	syn
战乱戰亂	zhàn luàn	chaos of war	syn
兵法	bīng fǎ	art of war / military strategy and tactics	syn
战局戰局	zhàn jú	war situation
知己知彼	zhī jǐ zhī bǐ	know yourself, know your enemy (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法\|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3])	syn
托尔斯泰托爾斯泰	tuō ěr sī tài	Tolstoy (name) / Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平\|战争与和平
阿瑞斯	ā ruì sī	Ares, Greek god of war / Mars
封顶封頂	fēng dǐng	to put a roof (on a building) / to cap the roof (finishing a building project) / fig. to put a ceiling (on spending, prize, ambition etc) / to top off / fig. to reach the highest point (of growth, profit, interest rates) / to stop growing (of plant bud or branch)
雏儿雛兒	chú ér	newly hatched bird / fig. inexperienced person / fig. chick (slighting term for young woman) / bimbo	syn
败北敗北	bài běi	(literary) to be routed (in a war) / to suffer defeat (in sports etc)	syn
干戈	gān gē	weapons of war / arms	syn
勃发勃發	bó fā	to sprout up / to flourish / (of war etc) to break out / rapid growth
遮羞布	zhē xiū bù	loincloth / (fig.) fig leaf / CL:塊\|块[kuai4]	syn
全线全線	quán xiàn	the whole front (in a war) / the whole length (of a road or railway line)
圣战聖戰	shèng zhàn	Holy war / jihad
壮丁壯丁	zhuàng dīng	able-bodied man (capable of fighting in a war)	syn
二次大战二次大戰	èr cì dà zhàn	World War Two
架空	jià kōng	to build (a hut etc) on stilts / to install (power lines etc) overhead / (fig.) unfounded / impractical / (fig.) to make sb a mere figurehead	syn
空战空戰	kōng zhàn	air war / air warfare
出笼出籠	chū lóng	(of food) to be taken out of the steamer / (fig.) (often used with 紛紛\|纷纷[fen1 fen1]) (of products, information etc) to appear / to emerge / to come out / (fig.) to dump / to inundate the market
解放战争解放戰爭	jiě fàng zhàn zhēng	War of Liberation (1945-49), after which the Communists 共產黨武裝\|共产党武装 under Mao Zedong 毛澤東\|毛泽东 took over from the Nationalists 國民政府\|国民政府 under Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石\|蒋介石
战书戰書	zhàn shū	written war challenge
轴心国軸心國	zhóu xīn guó	Axis powers (World War II)
战旗戰旗	zhàn qí	a war flag / an army banner
飞虎队飛虎隊	fēi hǔ duì	Flying Tigers, US airmen in China during World War Two / Hong Kong nickname for police special duties unit
司马司馬	sī mǎ	Minister of War (official title in pre-Han Chinese states) / two-character surname Sima
兵荒马乱兵荒馬亂	bīng huāng mǎ luàn	soldiers munity and troops rebel (idiom) / turmoil and chaos of war	syn
瞻前顾后瞻前顧後	zhān qián gù hòu	lit. to look forward and back (idiom) / fig. to consider carefully / to weigh the pros and cons / fig. to be overcautious and indecisive	syn
你争我夺你爭我奪	nǐ zhēng wǒ duó	lit. you fight, I snatch (idiom) / to compete fiercely offering no quarter / fierce rivalry / tug-of-war
松柏	sōng bǎi	pine and cypress / fig. chaste and undefiled / fig. tomb	syn
新军新軍	xīn jūn	New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895)
临战臨戰	lín zhàn	just before the contest / on the eve of war
对仗對仗	duì zhàng	antithesis (two lines of poetry matching in sense and sound) / to fight / to wage war	syn
朝鲜战争朝鮮戰爭	cháo xiǎn zhàn zhēng	Korean War (1950-1953)
商战商戰	shāng zhàn	trade war
旅顺旅順	lǚ shùn	Lüshun / Lüshunkou district of Dalian city 大連市\|大连市, Liaoning / called Port Arthur during Russian occupation and Russian-Japanese war of 1905
脱胎脫胎	tuō tāi	to be born / (fig.) to develop out of sth else (of ideas, stories, political systems etc) / (fig.) to shed one's body (to be reborn) / bodiless (e.g. lacquerware)
孙子孫子	sūn zǐ	Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武\|孙武[Sun1 Wu3] (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法\|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書\|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1]	syn
价格战價格戰	jià gé zhàn	price war
抗日战争抗日戰爭	kàng rì zhàn zhēng	(China's) War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945)
八路军八路軍	bā lù jūn	Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)	syn
第二次世界大战第二次世界大戰	dì èr cì shì jiè dà zhàn	World War II
开打開打	kāi dǎ	(of a sports competition or match) to commence / (of a war or battle) to break out / to perform acrobatic or choreographed fighting (in Chinese opera) / to brawl / to come to blows
中招	zhòng zhāo	(martial arts) to get hit / to get taken down / (fig.) to get infected (disease or computer virus) / (fig.) to fall for sb's trap / to be taken in
小白兔	xiǎo bái tù	small white rabbit / (fig.) innocent and naive person / (fig.) (slang) breast
反战反戰	fǎn zhàn	anti-war

The four tones

"(fig.) war" Chinese-English Dictionary

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