Illustration: In a Japanese home's storage cupboard, a parent adds sealed water bottles and canned food to orderly reserve shelves. Below them sit a portable stove, folded blankets, and a flashlight, making the cupboard's emergency purpose apparent.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

備び蓄ちく

bichiku

to stockpile for future use

Example sentences

  1. 食糧しょくりょうは備蓄びちくしておきましたか?

    Have you made provisions?

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  2. 弥生時代やよいじだいには農業のうぎょう、特とくに水稲農耕すいとうのうこうの採用さいようによって穀物こくもつの備蓄びちくが可能かのうになった。

    During the Yayoi period, adaptation of farming, especially rice-paddy cultivation, enabled the storage of grain.

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

  3. そこで彼かれらは、備蓄びちく米まいを自分じぶんがやっている酒蔵さかぐらへ原料げんりょうとして回まわしたのである。

    Then, they used stockpiled rice as a material for sake brewing which they managed.

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

Kanji in 備蓄

  • 備equip; provisionOnビKunそなえる・そなわる・つぶさに
  • 蓄amass; raiseOnチクKunたくわえる

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