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JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

悪あく循じゅん環かん

akujunkan

vicious cycle

Example sentences

  1. 賃金ちんぎんと物価ぶっかの悪循環あくじゅんかんを断たち切きることは困難こんなんだ。

    It is difficult to break the vicious circle of wages and prices.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 悪循環あくじゅんかんを断たつ

    to break out of a vicious cycle

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. したがって、伐採面積ばっさいめんせきをさらに拡大かくだいして利益りえきの確保かくほを図はかるという悪循環あくじゅんかんに陥おちいってしまい、演習林えんしゅうりんの更さらなる荒廃こうはいを招まねく結果けっかとなった。

    Therefore, a vicious cycle of expanding the tree-cutting area to increase the profit set in, making the state of the field practice forest further deteriorate.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 悪循環

  • 悪bad; viceOnアク・オKunわるい・わる-・あし
  • 循sequential; followOnジュン
  • 環ring; circleOnカンKunわ

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