Chinese symbol for “melee”
混战
hùn zhàn
Traditional: 混戰
chaotic warfare; confused fighting; melee; to join in such fighting
The closest CC-CEDICT match for melee is 混战 (hùn zhàn), defined as: chaotic warfare; confused fighting; melee; to join in such fighting.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “melee”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 碎钻 (碎鑽) | suì zuàn | small diamonds; melee (small diamonds used in embellishing mountings for larger gems) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 混战.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 混乱 (混亂) | hùn luàn | confused; chaotic; disorderly |
| 混合 | hùn hé | to mix; to blend; hybrid; composite |
| 混凝土 | hùn níng tǔ | concrete (building material) |
| 混淆 | hùn xiáo | to obscure; to confuse |
| 混蛋 | hún dàn | scoundrel; bastard |
| 混沌 | hùn dùn | primal chaos (original state of the universe in Chinese mythology); (of a situation) confused; chaotic |
| 战争 (戰爭) | zhàn zhēng | war; conflict; 场 (cháng),次 (cì) |
| 战略 (戰略) | zhàn lüè | strategy |
See also: Japanese symbol for “melee”.
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.