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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
- —戦時犯罪war crime
- —巡洋戦艦battle cruiser; battlecruiser
- —奇襲作戦surprise tactics
- —流通戦略distribution strategy; channel strategy
- —戦時内閣war cabinet
- —貿易戦争trade war
- —応援合戦cheerleading competition; cheering contest
- —野戦糧食field ration; combat ration
- —弩級戦艦dreadnought (class of warships)
- —決号作戦Operation Ketsugō (Japanese military plan for responding to the Allied invasion of the homeland)
- —年末商戦battle for sales at year-end; year-end shopping season
- —作戦実行putting a plan into operation
- —実戦配備deployment of troops, equipment, etc. (in preparation for battle)
- —航空戦隊air flotilla; air fleet; combat aviation unit of the Imperial Japanese Navy
- —歳末商戦battle for sales at year-end; year-end shopping season
- —防戦一方defensive-only
- —長期戦略long-term (business) strategy
- —一時休戦temporary truce; ceasefire
- —戦闘不能unable to fight (esp. in video games); unconscious; knocked out; dead
- —休暇戦術leave-taking tactics; many employees taking paid leave at the same time as a form of industrial action