惨敗 ざんぱい ignominious defeat #8,145 Meanings ざんぱい · さんぱい noun, takes する, intransitive ignominious defeat; crushing failure; utterly beaten; overwhelming defeat Its kanji 惨 サン、ザン · みじ.め、いた.む、むご.い wretched, disaster, cruelty, harsh 敗 ハイ · やぶ.れる failure, defeat, reversal