Chinese symbol for “blitzkrieg”
闪电战
shǎn diàn zhàn
Traditional: 閃電戰
blitzkrieg; blitz
The closest CC-CEDICT match for blitzkrieg is 闪电战 (shǎn diàn zhàn), defined as: blitzkrieg; blitz.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “blitzkrieg”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 闪击 (閃擊) | shǎn jī | lightning attack; Blitzkrieg |
| 闪击战 (閃擊戰) | shǎn jī zhàn | lightning war; Blitzkrieg |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 闪电战.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 闪电 (閃電) | shǎn diàn | lightning; measure word: 道 (dào) |
| 闪亮 (閃亮) | shǎn liàng | brilliant; shiny |
| 闪耀 (閃耀) | shǎn yào | to glint; to glitter |
| 闪烁 (閃爍) | shǎn shuò | to glisten; to glitter; to twinkle; to flicker; to be evasive; to equivocate |
| 闪光 (閃光) | shǎn guāng | flash |
| 闪闪 (閃閃) | shǎn shǎn | flickering; sparkling; glistening; glittering |
| 电影 (電影) | diàn yǐng | movie; film; measure word: 部 (bù) |
| 电话 (電話) | diàn huà | telephone; measure word: 部 (bù) |
| 战争 (戰爭) | zhàn zhēng | war; conflict; 场 (cháng),次 (cì) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “blitzkrieg”.
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.