Word Meaning 敗戦

はいせん haisen

敗戦 is read as はいせん (haisen) and means defeat.

Meaning

English

  1. defeat
  2. lost battle
  3. losing a war

Reading

Kana

はいせん

Romaji

haisen

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 24 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 4 Kanken 7級 Rank 3328 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

敗者復活戦

はいしゃふっかつせん

repechage

敗戦国

はいせんこく

defeated country

敗戦投手

はいせんとうしゅ

losing pitcher

戦敗

せんぱい

defeat in war

連戦連敗

れんせんれんぱい

succession of defeats

不戦敗

ふせんぱい

loss by default

全戦全敗

ぜんせんぜんぱい

failed at every attempt

敗北

はいぼく

defeat

敗れる

やぶれる

to be defeated

敗退

はいたい

being defeated

敗因

はいいん

cause of defeat

Example Sentences

2

After Japan lost the war, it failed to establish a peace treaty with the Soviet Union.

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.