Illustration: On a Japanese residential street after a wartime air raid, a family stands beside the charred posts and collapsed roof tiles of their home. A woman lifts an intact rice bowl from the rubble and passes it carefully to her child, who holds a small bundle of recovered belongings.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

戦せん災さい

sensai

war damage

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは戦災せんさい孤児こじだ。

    He is a war orphan.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 現在げんざいのものは戦災せんさいにより焼失しょうしつした後建のちたてられたものである。

    The current Gifu-jo Castle was reconstructed after it had burned down by air-raid.

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

  3. 昭和しょうわ20年ねん3月がつ 戦災せんさいにより無一文むいちもんとなる。

    In March, 1945, he became penniless due to the war damage.

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

Kanji in 戦災

  • 戦war; battleOnセンKunいくさ・たたかう・おののく
  • 災disaster; calamityOnサイKunわざわい

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