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衝撃 (しょうげき): shock, crash, impact, ballistic — Japanese vocabulary

衝撃 is read しょうげき and means "shock, crash, impact, ballistic". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

衝撃

Reading
しょうげき · shougeki
Translation
shock, crash, impact, ballistic
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
しょうげきが

Example

彼女の死は私にとって大きな衝撃だった。

かのじょのしはわたしにとっておおきなしょうげきだった。

Her death was a great shock to me.

Kanji in this word

  • 衝 — collide, 衝撃
  • 撃 — Beat, Attack, Defeat

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