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奮闘 (ふんとう): hard struggle, strenuous effort — Japanese vocabulary

奮闘 is read ふんとう and means "hard struggle, strenuous effort". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

奮闘

Reading
ふんとう · funtou
Translation
hard struggle, strenuous effort
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
ふんとうが

Example

人々は貧困に向かって奮闘した。

ひとびとはひんこんにむかってふんとうした。

People struggled against poverty.

Kanji in this word

  • 奮 — strive
  • 闘 — Fight, War

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