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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
- —百戦錬磨veteran; battle-worn; schooled by adversity in many battles; hard-bitten; rich in experience; very experienced
- —米西戦争Spanish-American War (1898)
- —普仏戦争Franco-Prussian War
- —日清戦争First Sino-Japanese war (1894-1895)
- —日露戦争Russo-Japanese War (1904-5)
- —宣戦布告declaration of war; proclamation of war
- —湾岸戦争Gulf War (1990-1991)
- —空挺作戦airborne operation
- —反戦主義pacifism
- —反戦運動anti-war movement
- —敗戦投手losing pitcher
- —非戦論者pacifist
- —非戦闘員non-combatant; civilian
- —水際作戦shoreline protection or operations
- —不戦条約Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928); Pact of Paris
- —電撃作戦blitzkrieg tactics
- —統一戦線united front
- —心理戦争psychological warfare
- —戦争文学war literature
- —戦争映画war movie