Illustration: At a rural road crossing, a civil works crew installs a large concrete culvert where a drainage channel passes beneath the roadway.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

土ど木ぼく

doboku

civil engineering, public works

Example sentences

  1. 父親ちちおやの跡あとを継ついで貿易業ぼうえきぎょうや土木どぼく事業じぎょうにも携たずさわる。

    Following in his father’s footsteps, he also engaged in a trading business and civil engineering works.

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

  2. 不要ふような土木どぼく事業じぎょう・建築けんちくにより国費こくひを無駄使むだづかいしている。

    They have been wasting the national budget for unnecessary projects of civil engineering and construction.

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

  3. そのうち民生費みんせいひが30.9%、土木どぼく費ひが15.2%であった。

    The welfare budget totaled 30.9% while the Civil Engineering budget was 15.2% of the total.

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

Kanji in 土木

  • 土soil; earthOnド・トKunつち
  • 木tree; woodOnボク・モクKunき・こ-

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