Illustration: A couple sit under a tiny park shelter in Japan after their picnic has gone disastrously wrong. Their umbrella lies turned inside out, a gust has folded half the wet picnic sheet over itself, and an open lunchbox rests upside down in a puddle just beyond reach.

JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

散さん々ざん

sanzan

terrible, awful

Also used as an adverb meaning badly. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 昨日きのうの天気てんきは散々さんざんだったよ。

    The weather was miserable yesterday.

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  2. 彼かれは私わたしたちを散々さんざんてこずらせた。

    He gave us quite a lot of trouble.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. このため、重勝しげかつは散々さんざんに侮辱ぶじょくされたが、養子ようしの重政しげまさが功こうを挙あげたため、体面たいめんを保たもたれ、星崎城主ほしざきじょうしゅとなったのである。

    Shigekatsu was insulted badly due to this, but could preserve his face and become the lord of Hoshizaki-jo Castle because Shigemasa, his adopted son, was successful in military exploits.

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

Kanji in 散々

  • 散scatter; disperseOnサンKunちる・ちらす・ちらかす

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