Illustration: At the end of an amateur wrestling match in a municipal gym, the referee holds both competitors by the wrist and raises only one wrestler's arm. The other wrestler stands with their arm lowered, shoulders sagging and mouth twisted in a disappointed but good-natured grimace.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

敗はい者しゃ

haisha

loser, defeated person

Example sentences

  1. 敗者はいしゃたちも「賞しょう」を受うけたのです。つまり、勝かったチームにたたきのめされたのでした。

    The losers received a "prize" too: They were beaten up by the winning team!

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  2. 当時武田氏とうじたけだしと今川氏いまがわしは同盟どうめいしていたため「敗因はいいんを間違まちがえるとは考かんがえ難がたく、第三者だいさんしゃが敗者はいしゃから得えた信頼しんらいできる情報じょうほうに基もとづく」とした。

    Given the fact that the Takeda clan and the Imagawa clan were allied, he said, 'it would be hard to believe that they mistook the reason for the Imagawa’s defeat, and this is based on a reliable source obtained from the losers by a third party.'

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 道長みちながについての記述きじゅつに賞賛しょうさんが多おおく見みられることが特徴とくちょうとして挙あげられるが、彼かれの晩年ばんねんを襲おそった病苦びょうくや、摂関政治せっかんせいじの裏面りめんを生いきる敗者はいしゃの悲哀ひあいをも詳つまびらかに描えがき出だしている。

    It is said that a defining characteristic is the admiration seen in the descriptions of Michinaga, but it also clearly shows his suffering due to illness in his later years and even the pains of living in defeat under the Regency government.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 敗者

  • 敗failure; defeatOnハイKunやぶれる
  • 者someone; personOnシャKunもの

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