Word Meaning 戦国

せんごく sengoku

戦国 is read as せんごく (sengoku) and means Warring States period (Japan, China).

Meaning

English

  1. Warring States period (Japan, China)
  2. country in civil war
  3. country disarrayed by war
  4. competiton in which there are several evenly-matched participants
  5. hotly-contested game (match, market, etc.)
  6. anybody's game

Reading

Kana

せんごく

Romaji

sengoku

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 21 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 4 Kanken 7級 Rank 11241 Priority B

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

戦争挑戦国

せんそうちょうせんくに

warmonger

交戦国

こうせんこく

warring nations

戦国七雄

せんごくしちゆう

Seven Warring States (of China)

三国同盟戦争

さんごくどうめいせんそう

War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870)

戦後

せんご

postwar period

戦い

たたかい

battle

戦争

せんそう

war

戦前

せんぜん

pre-war days

戦場

いくさば

battlefield

戦場

せんじょう

battlefield

戦車

せんしゃ

chariot

戦死

せんし

death in battle

Example Sentences

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In China too glass is being excavated out of graves from the Era of Warring States.

Nagaragawa Onsen’s “Nobunaga Hospitality Meal” is a modern style adaptation of a Sengoku period hospitality meal (Honzen-ryōri).

World War II ended and the Olympics were revived in 1948 in London, but the losing countries of the war, Germany and Japan, were not invited.