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万歳 (ばんざい): banzai, Long live ~! — Japanese vocabulary

万歳 is read ばんざい and means "banzai, Long live ~!". JLPT N2 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

万歳

Reading
ばんざい · banzai
Translation
banzai, Long live ~!
Level
JLPT N2
Pitch accent
ばんざいが

Example

彼が金メダルをとったという知らせをきき、私たちは万歳と叫んだ。

かれがきんメダルをとったというしらせをきき、わたしたちはばんざいとさけんだ。

We cried banzai at the news that he won the gold medal.

Kanji in this word

  • 万 — ten-thousand
  • 歳 — Year-end, Age, Occasion

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