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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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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
- —不戦敗loss by default; default
- —野戦砲field gun
- —新冷戦new cold war
- —銃撃戦gunfight; firefight; gun battle; shoot-out
- —沖縄戦Battle of Okinawa (April, 1945)
- —激戦地site of a bloody battle
- —防衛戦defensive battle
- —戦略的strategic
- —挑戦的challenging; defiant; provocative; aggressive
- —現代戦modern warfare
- —電子戦electronic warfare
- —挑戦権right to challenge; right to make a challenge
- —順位戦rank-deciding competitions (e.g. in go or shogi)
- —戦勝者victor; victor troops; conqueror
- —大乱戦battle royal
- —最終戦final game; final games; the finals
- —独ソ戦Russo-German War (1941-1945)
- —戦闘艦combat ship; combat vessel
- —交戦者combatant; interested party in warfare; warring nation; belligerent
- —反戦歌anti-war song