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塹: moat

moat; trench
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Readings

On
ザン・セン
Kun
ほり・あな

Appears almost only in 塹壕 (ざんごう, trench) and its compounds.

Key words

塹壕ざんごうtrench
塹壕戦ざんごうせんtrench warfare
塹壕熱ざんごうねつtrench fever

Example sentences

The soldiers were sheltering from the rain in a muddy trench.

On the Western Front of the First World War, a long period of trench warfare dragged on.

On the battlefield, many soldiers suffered from trench fever, carried by lice.

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