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Chinese symbol for “postwar”

战后
zhàn hòu
Traditional: 戰後
after the war; postwar

The closest CC-CEDICT match for postwar is 战后 (zhàn hòu), defined as: after the war; postwar.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

战 zhàn
war, fighting, battle
radical 62 ⼽ · 9 strokes
后 hòu
after; behind, rear; descendants
radical 30 ⼝ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 战后.

WordPinyinMeaning
战争 (戰爭)zhàn zhēngwar; conflict; 场 (cháng),次 (cì)
战略 (戰略)zhàn lüèstrategy
战斗 (戰鬥)zhàn dòuto fight; to engage in combat
挑战 (挑戰)tiǎo zhànto challenge; to take on a challenge; a challenge
作战 (作戰)zuò zhàncombat; to fight
战士 (戰士)zhàn shìfighter; soldier
最后 (最後)zuì hòufinal; last; ultimate; finally; in the end
之后 (之後)zhī hòuafter; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then

See also: Japanese symbol for “postwar”.

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.

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