Illustration: At a small riverside maintenance site, a worker tips a wheelbarrow of excavated material onto a low mound beside a drainage channel. Broken earth clods, loose sand, and scattered small stones tumble together from the barrow, with their different textures clearly visible.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

土ど砂しゃ

dosha

earth and sand, sediment

Example sentences

  1. 崩くずれた土砂どしゃは渡良瀬川わたらせがわを流ながれ、下流かりゅうで堆積たいせきした。

    The earth and sand from the landslides were carried by Watarase-gawa River and accumulated in the lower river.

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  2. しかし、足尾あしおの山やまから流出りゅうしゅつする土砂どしゃが下流かりゅうで堆積たいせきするのは止とまらなかった。

    However, it did not stop earth and sand flowing down from the mountain of Ashio to accumulate downstream.

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

  3. 次つぎに、渡良瀬川わたらせがわから取水しゅすいする田園でんえんや、洪水後こうずいご、足尾あしおから流ながれた土砂どしゃが堆積たいせきした田園でんえんで、稲いねが立たち枯かれるという被害ひがいが続出ぞくしゅつした。

    The next damage appeared as rice crops died in the fields that had been drawing water from Watarase-gawa River and in the fields where earth and sand from Ashio had accumulated after the flood.

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

Kanji in 土砂

  • 土soil; earthOnド・トKunつち
  • 砂sandOnサ・シャKunすな

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