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荒廃 (こうはい): ruin — Japanese vocabulary

荒廃 is read こうはい and means "ruin". JLPT N3 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

荒廃

Reading
こうはい · kouhai
Translation
ruin
Level
JLPT N3
Pitch accent
こうはいが

Example

戦争でその国は荒廃した。

せんそうでそのくにはこうはいした。

The war wasted the country.

Kanji in this word

  • 荒 — rough, wild
  • 廃 — 废dispose, abolish

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