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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
- —タイトル戦title fight; championship match
- —ＢＣ級戦犯class-B and class-C war criminals
- —戦争犠牲者war victim
- —ボーア戦争(second) Boer War (1899-1902)
- —アロー戦争Arrow War (the second Opium War; 1856-1860)
- —十五年戦争Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945); Pacific War; fifteen years' war
- —大祖国戦争Great Patriotic War (Russian name for the war along the eastern front during World War II)
- —ビルマ戦争Burmese Wars (1823-1826, 1852-1853, 1885-1887)
- —ボタン戦争push-button war; war started or ended with the push of a button (e.g. to launch a nuclear missile)
- —イラク戦争Iraq War (2003-2011)
- —戦略的撤退strategic withdrawal; strategic retreat
- —スエズ戦争Suez War (1956)
- —論戦を張るto take a firm stand; to argue about
- —対テロ作戦antiterrorist operation; counterterrorism operation
- —振戦せん妄delirium tremens
- —作戦開始日start day for military operation; departure day; D-Day
- —六日間戦争Six-Day War (June 5-10, 1967); Third Arab-Israeli War
- —対戦車兵器anti-tank weapon
- —対戦車車両tank destroyer
- —本態性振戦essential tremor