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Chinese symbol for “firefight”

枪战
qiāng zhàn
Traditional: 槍戰
gun battle; firefight

The closest CC-CEDICT match for firefight is 枪战 (qiāng zhàn), defined as: gun battle; firefight.

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Characters and stroke order

枪 qiāng
gun, rife; lance, spear
radical 75 ⽊ · 8 strokes
战 zhàn
war, fighting, battle
radical 62 ⼽ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 枪战.

WordPinyinMeaning
开枪 (開槍)kāi qiāngto open fire; to shoot a gun
手枪 (手槍)shǒu qiāngpistol; measure word: 把 (bǎ)
步枪 (步槍)bù qiāngrifle; measure word: 把 (bǎ), 枝 (zhī)
枪击 (槍擊)qiāng jīto shoot with a gun; shooting incident
机枪 (機槍)jī qiāngmachine gun
枪杀 (槍殺)qiāng shāto shoot dead
战争 (戰爭)zhàn zhēngwar; conflict; 场 (cháng),次 (cì)
战略 (戰略)zhàn lüèstrategy

See also: Japanese symbol for “firefight”.

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.