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JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

無む残ざん

muzan

pitiful, tragic

「無惨」とも書く。 Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれの希望きぼうは無残むざんに砕くだかれた。

    His hopes were shattered.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 私わたしの手てから滑すべり落おちた卵たまごは、殻からも黄身きみも飛とび散ちり見みるも無残むざんな姿すがたとなった。

    The egg that slipped from my hand broke, and both the shell and yolk splattered everywhere. It was a pitiful sight.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. これらの事件じけんは倒幕とうばくを目的もくてきとした最初さいしょの軍事的行動ぐんじてきこうどうとして、後世こうせいから見みた歴史的れきしてきな意味いみは大おおきいものの、この時点じてんでは無残むざんな結末けつまつとなった。

    From the current point of view, those incidents are significant because they were the first military actions attempting to overthrow the bakufu, but all of them failed miserably.

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

Kanji in 無残

  • 無nothingness; noneOnム・ブKunない
  • 残remainder; leftoverOnザン・サンKunのこる・のこす・そこなう

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