Illustration: From a hillside overlooking a Japanese port city during wartime, an evacuated family sees damaged neighborhoods extending toward a smoke-covered harbor. Numerous military aircraft cross the distant sky, and long columns of civilians move along the road carrying bedding and household bundles.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

大たい戦せん

taisen

major war

Often appears in 世界大戦, meaning “world war.” Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 映画えいがは第二次世界だいにじせかい大戦たいせんに遡さかのぼる。

    The film takes us back to World War II.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 第だい３次世界じせかい大戦たいせんが起おこるのかしら。

    I wonder if a third world war will break out.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 翌年よくねん、第一次世界だいいちじせかい大戦たいせんが始はじまりました。

    The next year, World War I broke out.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 大戦

  • 大large; bigOnダイ・タイKunおお-・おおきい
  • 戦war; battleOnセンKunいくさ・たたかう・おののく

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