塹 — 14 strokes / Radical「土」
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- On
- ザン・セン
- Kun
- ほり・あな
- Meaning
- trench; moat
Origin
Earth 土 with 斬 "to cut" as phonetic: a ditch cut into the ground.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 塹壕ざんごう
trench
- 塹壕戦ざんごうせん
trench warfare
Example
第一次大戦は塹壕戦が長く続いた。
The First World War saw long years of trench warfare.
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