Illustration: A household garden and its hand-pumped well appear above a cutaway view of the earth beneath them. Below the dry surface soil, water fills the gaps between gravel grains and the cracks in a deeper rock layer.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

地ち下か水すい

chikasui

groundwater

Example sentences

  1. その他たの地域ちいきは田畑たはたを中心ちゅうしんとした農業のうぎょうがほとんどであり、豊富ほうふな地下水ちかすいでおいしい米こめを産さんする。

    Its main industry centers around agriculture, specifically good rice grown in rice paddies thanks to abundant ground water.

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

  2. 水源すいげんはほとんどが伏流水ふくりゅうすいや地下水ちかすいなどの井戸水いどみずである。

    The water supply source is usually well water such as infiltrated and subsoil water.

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

  3. また、当地とうちは、豊富ほうふな地下水ちかすいに恵めぐまれており、南麓なんろくの大阪府側おおさかふがわにサントリー山崎蒸留所やまざきじょうりゅうしょが所在しょざいすることでも有名ゆうめい。

    It is abundant in groundwater in this area and is famous for Suntory Yamazaki Distillery on the Osaka Prefectural side of the south foot.

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

Kanji in 地下水

  • 地ground; earthOnチ・ジ
  • 下below; downOnカ・ゲKunした・しも・もと
  • 水waterOnスイKunみず・みず-

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