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せんごく

Meanings

Noun

1. country in civil war; country disarrayed by war

2. Warring States period (Japan, China)

3. competiton in which there are several evenly-matched participants; hotly-contested game (match, market, etc.); anybody's game

Alt. forms

戦せん国ごく

Pitch accent

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Used in vocabulary (5 in total)

せんごくじだい

Warring States period (of Japanese history, approx. 1467-1568 CE); Sengoku period; Warring States period (of Chinese history, 403-221 BCE); era of vicious competition

しゅんじゅうせんごく

the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history)

せんごくだいみょう

daimyo in the Warring States period