| 战 | zhàn | to fight; fight; war; battle |
| 战争 | zhàn zhēng | war; conflict; CL:场,次 |
| 战斗 | zhàn dòu | to fight; to battle; CL:场,次 |
| 战士 | zhàn shì | fighter; soldier; warrior; CL:个 |
| 战术 | zhàn shù | tactics |
| 战略 | zhàn lüè | strategy |
| 战线 | zhàn xiàn | battle line; battlefront; front |
| 战胜 | zhàn shèng | to prevail; to surmount |
| 战后 | zhàn hòu | after the war; post-war |
| 战国 | zhàn guó | the Warring States period (475-221 BC) |
| 战场 | zhàn chǎng | battlefield; CL:个 |
| 战友 | zhàn yǒu | comrade-in-arms; battle companion |
| 战役 | zhàn yì | military campaign |
| 战时 | zhàn shí | wartime |
| 战斗力 | zhàn dòu lì | fighting strength |
| 战备 | zhàn bèi | war preparation |
| 战事 | zhàn shì | fighting |
| 战火 | zhàn huǒ | conflagration; the fire of war |
| 战无不胜 | zhàn wú bù shèng | to triumph in every battle (idiom); invincible; to succeed in every undertaking |
| 战国时代 | zhàn guó shí dài | the Warring States period (475-221 BC); Japanese Warring States period (15th-17th centuries) |
| 战俘 | zhàn fú | prisoner of war |
| 战乱 | zhàn luàn | chaos of war |
| 战斗机 | zhàn dòu jī | fighter (aircraft) |
| 战壕 | zhàn háo | trench warfare |
| 战舰 | zhàn jiàn | battleship; warship |
| 战区 | zhàn qū | war zone; (military) theater of operations |
| 战车 | zhàn chē | war chariot; tank |
| 战马 | zhàn mǎ | war-horse |
| 战地 | zhàn dì | battlefield |
| 战功 | zhàn gōng | outstanding military service |
| 战争与和平 | Zhàn zhēng yǔ Hé píng | War and Peace by Tolstoy 托尔斯泰 |
| 战国策 | Zhàn guó cè | "Strategies of the Warring States", chronicle of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), possibly written by Su Qin 苏秦 |
| 战书 | zhàn shū | written war challenge |
| 战栗 | zhàn lì | to tremble; shudder |
| 战祸 | zhàn huò | disaster of war |
| 战兢 | zhàn jīng | to tremble; to be on guard |
| 战兢兢 | zhàn jīng jīng | shaking with fear |
| 战列舰 | zhàn liè jiàn | battleship |
| 战利品 | zhàn lì pǐn | plunder |
| 战力 | zhàn lì | military strength; military power; military capability |
| 战国七雄 | zhàn guó qī xióng | Seven Powerful States of the Warring States, namely: 齐, 楚, 燕, 韩, 赵, 魏 and 秦 |
| 战国末 | zhàn guó mò | late Warring States period, c. 250-221 BC before the First Emperor's Qin Dynasty |
| 战国末年 | zhàn guó mò nián | late Warring States period, c. 250-221 BC before the First Emperor's Qin Dynasty |
| 战团 | zhàn tuán | fighting group; by extension, a fight; a fray |
| 战壕热 | zhàn háo rè | trench fever |
| 战战兢兢 | zhàn zhàn jīng jīng | trembling with fear; with fear and trepidation |
| 战战栗栗 | zhàn zhàn lì lì | to tremble with fear |
| 战抖 | zhàn dǒu | to shudder; to tremble |
| 战败 | zhàn bài | to lose a war |
| 战旗 | zhàn qí | a war flag; an army banner |