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火災 (かさい): Fire (disaster) — Japanese vocabulary

火災 is read かさい and means "Fire (disaster)". JLPT N3 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

火災

Reading
かさい · kasai
Translation
Fire (disaster)
Level
JLPT N3
Pitch accent
かさいが

Example

町の真ん中で火災が発生した。

まちのまんなかでかさいがはっせいした。

A fire broke out in the middle of the city.

Kanji in this word

  • 火 — fire
  • 災 — disaster, calamity

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