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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
- —厭戦気分feeling of war-weariness
- —撹乱戦術disturbance tactics
- —挟撃作戦pincer operation (tactic)
- —牽制作戦diversionary operations
- —春秋戦国the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history)
- —戦意喪失loss of fighting spirit; losing the will to fight
- —戦国大名daimyo in the Warring States period
- —戦国乱世turbulent (troubled) times; turbulent war period
- —善戦苦闘putting up a good fight against some odds
- —戦力拮抗struggle for supremacy between evenly-matched armies (teams)
- —戦列復帰return to the line (of battle); coming back to the game; comeback
- —掃討作戦mopping-up operation; search-and-destroy operation
- —怠業戦術slowdown strategy; go-slow tactics (of workers in a labor dispute)
- —対戦相手opponent; adversary; the competition; the other side; one's enemy
- —竹槍戦術tactics of fighting a technologically advanced adversary with primitive weapons; sole reliance on simple determination (naive spiritualism) in fighting an overwhelming foe
- —陳情合戦competitive lobbying; rivalry in campaigning (for and against)
- —暴露戦術exposure tactics; muckraking tactics
- —非難合戦(engaging in a round of) mutual criticism; repeated attacks on each other
- —妨害戦術obstructive tactics; harassing tactics
- —山猫戦術wildcat tactics