敗戦
はいせん · haisen · JLPT N1 · noun
losing a war
🏳️ 敗 (lose) + 戦 (war) = 敗戦, losing a war. Read it as lose-war.
Same first kanji as 敗北 (haiboku, general defeat). 戦 also appears in 戦争 (sensō, war), so 敗戦 is the war-specific form of losing.
はいせん · haisen · JLPT N1 · noun
losing a war
🏳️ 敗 (lose) + 戦 (war) = 敗戦, losing a war. Read it as lose-war.
Same first kanji as 敗北 (haiboku, general defeat). 戦 also appears in 戦争 (sensō, war), so 敗戦 is the war-specific form of losing.