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災難 (さいなん): calamity, misfortune — Japanese vocabulary

災難 is read さいなん and means "calamity, misfortune". JLPT N2 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

災難

Reading
さいなん · sainan
Translation
calamity, misfortune
Level
JLPT N2
Pitch accent
さいなんが

Example

彼らは災難に遭っても冷静であった。

かれらはさいなんにあってもれいせいであった。

They were calm in the face of disaster.

Kanji in this word

  • 災 — disaster, calamity
  • 難 — difficult

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