仗
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weaponry; to hold (a weapon); to wield; to rely on; to depend on; war; battle
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 人 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 仗
- Common rank
- #1,849
- Unicode
- U+4ED7
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
battle · Heisig RSH #2103
人 person + 丈 100 Chinese inches
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 仗
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 口水仗 | dispute; spat; shouting match | |
| 打对仗 | to compete | |
| 打翻身仗 | to work hard towards a turnaround; to fight to reverse sth | |
| 狗仗人势 | a dog threatens based on master's power (idiom); to use one's position to bully others | |
| 打雪仗 | to have a snowball fight | |
| 仗义执言 | to speak out for justice (idiom); to take a stand on a matter of principle | |
| 开仗 | to start a war; to open hostilities | |
| 打仗 | to fight a battle; to go to war | |
| 仗义 | to uphold justice; to be loyal (to one's friends); to stick by | |
| 仗义疏财 | to help the needy for justice (idiom); to be loyal to one's friends and generous to the ne… | |
| 疏财仗义 | distributing money, fighting for virtue (idiom); fig. generous in helping the needy | |
| 仗火 | battle | |
| 死仗 | to fight bitterly; hard struggle | |
| 对仗 | antithesis (two lines of poetry matching in sense and sound); to fight; to wage war | |
| 干仗 | to quarrel (dialect) | |
| 行侠仗义 | to be chivalrous | |
| 牡丹虽好，全仗绿叶扶持 | Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom)… | |
| 仗势欺人 | to take advantage of one's position to bully people (idiom); to kick people around | |
| 仪仗队 | honor guard; guard of honor; the banner bearing contingent leading a military procession | |
| 雪仗 | snow fight; snowball fight |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 丈 — compare how they read.