遭難

そうなん · sounan · JLPT N1 · noun

catastrophe

🚢 遭 (meet with) + 難 (hardship): meeting with hardship, like a ship hitting trouble at sea

遭 means encounter or run into, and 難 means hardship or danger. Together they mean suffering a disaster or shipwreck, so the sea-ship emoji fits the shipwreck sense.

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