Illustration: Across a Japanese residential neighborhood, several houses have partially collapsed, concrete boundary walls lie toppled, and the road has buckled beside displaced foundations.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

大だい震しん災さい

daishinsai

major earthquake disaster

Example sentences

  1. 阪神はんしん大震災だいしんさいでは地面じめんが長時間ちょうじかんに渡わたって揺ゆれた。

    In the Hanshin earthquake, the ground shook for a long time.

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  2. 東日本ひがしにほん大震災だいしんさいで、津波つなみの高たかさが37.9メートルにまで達たっしていた。

    During the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, the height of the tsunami waves reached up to 37.9 meters.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 東日本ひがしにほん大震災だいしんさいは被災地ひさいちが広範囲こうはんいに及およんでいるため、息いきの長ながい支援しえんが求もとめられている。

    Since a large area was devastated by the Tohoku earthquake of 2011, a sustained help effort is sought.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 大震災

  • 大large; bigOnダイ・タイKunおお-・おおきい
  • 震quake; shakeOnシンKunふるう・ふるえる・ふるわせる
  • 災disaster; calamityOnサイKunわざわい

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