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戦 kanji
war, battle, match
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
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On readings
セン
Kun readings
いくさたたかうおののくそよぐわななく
Variant forms
戰Words with 戦
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —総力戦all-out war; total war
- —序盤戦early stages (of a game); opening phase
- —対戦車anti-tank
- —追撃戦pursuit battle
- —消耗戦war of attrition
- —延長戦extended game; overtime; extra time; extra innings
- —持久戦protracted war; war of attrition
- —督戦隊barrier troop
- —長期戦drawn-out (protracted) war or contest
- —戦中派the war generation; those who grew up during WWII (in Japan)
- —戦死者person killed in action; the war dead
- —戦災者war victims
- —戦利品spoils of war; booty; war trophy; something one managed to obtain or buy (at a bargain sale, merchandise stall, etc.); purchases; prizes (at an arcade, etc.)
- —戦車隊tank corps
- —戦前派prewar generation
- —戦後派postwar generation
- —戦時中during the war
- —戦時色wartime appearance
- —戦病死death from disease contracted at the front
- —戦術家tactician; strategist