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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
- —戦時下in times of war
- —早慶戦match between Waseda University and Keio University (esp. baseball)
- —早東戦(baseball) game between Waseda and Tokyo universities
- —早明戦Waseda-Meiji (baseball) game
- —立明戦Rikkyo-Meiji (baseball) game
- —開幕戦opening game; (season) opener
- —激戦区closely contested constituency; highly competitive marketplace; battleground
- —接近戦close combat; close(-quarter) fighting; in-fighting
- —戦車兵tankman
- —打撃戦game with many hits; high-scoring game
- —定期戦regularly scheduled game; regularly scheduled match
- —復讐戦return match
- —名人戦Meijin-sen (annual professional shogi title match); Meijin-sen (annual professional go tournament); Meijin-sen (annual competitive karuta title match)
- —優勝戦championship tournament; finals
- —核戦略nuclear strategy
- —核戦力nuclear force
- —地上戦land war
- —個人戦individual match; single game
- —団体戦team competition; team game
- —決定戦deciding match; play-off; runoff