# 戦 — War

Frequency rank 113 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Common in published Japanese. A handful of these and real text starts to open.

More common than 食 (Eat), less common than 多 (Many).

- On’yomi: せん
- Kun’yomi: いくさ、たたか
- Radical: 戈 Halberd (Kangxi 62)
- Frequency path: Level I of XX
- School grade: 4
- Strokes: 13

Two lines of toy soldiers face each other across a kitchen table.

In words:

- 戦 いくさ — war;battle;campaign;fight
- 戦争 せんそう — war
- 戦い たたかい — battle,fight,struggle,conflict

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