Chinese symbol for “battleship”
战舰
zhàn jiàn
Traditional: 戰艦
battleship; warship
The closest CC-CEDICT match for battleship is 战舰 (zhàn jiàn), defined as: battleship; warship.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “battleship”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 战列舰 (戰列艦) | zhàn liè jiàn | battleship |
| 主力舰 (主力艦) | zhǔ lì jiàn | battleship |
| 战斗舰 (戰鬥艦) | zhàn dòu jiàn | battleship |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 战舰.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 战争 (戰爭) | zhàn zhēng | war; conflict; 场 (cháng),次 (cì) |
| 战略 (戰略) | zhàn lüè | strategy |
| 战斗 (戰鬥) | zhàn dòu | to fight; to engage in combat |
| 挑战 (挑戰) | tiǎo zhàn | to challenge; to take on a challenge; a challenge |
| 作战 (作戰) | zuò zhàn | combat; to fight |
| 战士 (戰士) | zhàn shì | fighter; soldier |
| 舰队 (艦隊) | jiàn duì | fleet; measure word: 支 (zhī) |
| 军舰 (軍艦) | jūn jiàn | warship; military naval vessel |
See also: Japanese symbol for “battleship”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.