Battle in Chinese
battle · HSK 6
斗争
- 斗 to fight
- 争 to strive for
Counted with 场: 一场斗争
跟坏习惯作斗争并不容易。 Fighting against bad habits isn't easy.
Other ways to say battle
More words with 斗 or 争
How do you say battle in Chinese?
Battle in Chinese is 斗争 (dòu zhēng). You can also say 战斗 (zhàn dòu).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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