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遭難 (そうなん): disaster, shipwreck, accident — Japanese vocabulary

遭難 is read そうなん and means "disaster, shipwreck, accident". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

遭難

Reading
そうなん · sounan
Translation
disaster, shipwreck, accident
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
そうなんが

Example

彼らは山で遭難した。

かれらはやまでそうなんした。

They lost their way in the mountain.

Kanji in this word

  • 遭 — Encounter, Meet, Party
  • 難 — difficult

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