Chinese symbol for “warlike”
好战
hào zhàn
Traditional: 好戰
warlike
The closest CC-CEDICT match for warlike is 好战 (hào zhàn), defined as: warlike.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “warlike”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 兵 | bīng | soldiers; a force |
| 尚武 | shàng wǔ | to promote a martial spirit; to revere military skills |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 好战.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 最好 | zuì hǎo | best; had better ...; it would be best to ... |
| 好像 | hǎo xiàng | as if; to seem like |
| 不好 | bù hǎo | no good |
| 好好 | hǎo hǎo | in perfectly good condition; perfectly all right; well; thoroughly; carefully; properly |
| 良好 | liáng hǎo | good; favorable |
| 好看 | hǎo kàn | good-looking; nice-looking; (of a movie, book, TV show etc) good |
| 战争 (戰爭) | zhàn zhēng | war; conflict; 场 (cháng),次 (cì) |
| 战略 (戰略) | zhàn lüè | strategy |
See also: Japanese symbol for “warlike”.
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.