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敗戦 (はいせん): defeat, losing a war — Japanese vocabulary

敗戦 is read はいせん and means "defeat, losing a war". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

敗戦

Reading
はいせん · haisen
Translation
defeat, losing a war
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
はいせんが

Example

敗戦のうわさが広まった。

はいせんのうわさがひろまった。

Rumors of defeat were abroad.

Kanji in this word

  • 敗 — defeat
  • 戦 — war, fight

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