Traditional: 佔領
占领 (zhàn lǐng) means “to capture; to seize; to occupy by force”. It is an HSK 6 Chinese word (traditional 佔領) in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
Practice each character:
敌军占领了那座城市。
Díjūn zhànlǐng le nà zuò chéngshì.
The enemy army occupied that city.
Updated: 2026-05-27