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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)
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
- —主戦Popularadvocacy of war
- —終戦Popularend of war; cessation of hostilities
- —緒戦Popularbeginning of hostilities; beginning of competition; first match (in a series)
- —聖戦Popularholy war; crusade
- —接戦Popularclose contest; close match; close game; close race; close combat
- —舌戦Popularwar of words
- —宣戦Populardeclaration of war
- —戦域Popularwar area; battlefield; theater; theatre
- —戦火Popularwartime fire; war; wartime destruction; horrors of war
- —戦禍Popularwar damage; ravages of war; horrors of war
- —戦艦Popularbattleship
- —戦国Popularcountry in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competition in which there are several evenly matched participants; hotly contested game (match, market, etc.); anybody's game
- —戦士Popularsoldier; combatant; warrior
- —戦死Populardeath in battle
- —戦時Popularwartime
- —戦車Populartank (military vehicle); chariot
- —戦勝Popularwinning a war; victory
- —戦場Popularbattlefield; battleground
- —戦線Popular(war) front
- —戦前Popularpre-war days; before the war