Hibakusha (noun)
hib-a-koosh-a
(in Japan) a survivor of either of the atomic explosions at Hiroshima or Nagasaki in 1945.
Japanese, from hi ‘suffer’ + baku ‘explosion’ + sha ‘person’.
Example sentences
“The Hibakusha became the archetype for the human condition after the war.”
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