Illustration: At dawn in a Japanese residential street, firefighters guide residents away from the remains of a devastating apartment fire. Several homes are blackened and partly collapsed, with hoses crossing the soaked road and an ambulance waiting nearby.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

惨さん事じ

sanji

disaster, tragedy

Example sentences

  1. 大だい惨事さんじを避さけられたのは全まったくの幸運こううんだった。

    A calamity was avoided by sheer luck.

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  2. その大だい惨事さんじで生いき残のこった乗客じょうきゃくはほとんどいなかった。

    Few passengers survived the catastrophe.

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  3. その惨事さんじを引ひき起おこした火事かじは、病院びょういんの２階かいから出火しゅっかした。

    The fire which caused the disaster broke out on the second floor of the hospital.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 惨事

  • 惨wretched; disasterOnサン・ザンKunみじめ・いたむ・むごい
  • 事matter; thingOnジ・ズKunこと・つかう・つかえる

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