Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 4

JLPT level: N3

78 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 13

Meaning: war, battle, match

Kunyomi: いくさ たたか.う おのの.く そよ.ぐ わなな.く

Onyomi: セン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: ほこ

Meaning: spear, halberd

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

争(せんそう)   war

闘(せんとう)   battle, fight, combat

場(せんじょう)   battlefield, battleground

前(せんぜん)   pre-war

後(せんご)   postwar

(さくせん)   tactics, strategy

決勝(けっしょうせん)   finals game of a tournament decision of a contest

する(かんせんする)   watch a game

する(はいせんする)   lose, be defeated

する(ちょうせんする)   challenge, defy [v.i.]

(いくさ)   war, battle, campaign, fight

う(たたかう)   fight [v.i.]

Onyomi Examples

セン war, battle, match, game, competition

センイキ war area, battlefield, theater, theatre

カイセン outbreak of war, starting a war

カイセン event with ... rounds, innings, legs, etc., nth-round match (in a knockout tournament)

Kunyomi Examples

いくさ war, battle, campaign, fight, troops, forces

せんじょう battlefield, battleground

負け まけいくさ losing a battle, lost battle, battle one cannot win, battle one is doomed to lose

野合 のがっせん battle in the open, battle on an open field

たたかう to make war (on), to wage war (against), to go to war (with), to fight (with), to do battle (against), to compete (against), to struggle (against adversities, etc.), to fight, to contend, to resist

おののく to shake (from fear, cold, excitement, etc.), to shudder, to tremble

そよぐ to rustle, to sway, to stir, to flutter

慄く わななく to tremble, to shiver, to shake