Illustration: A delivery cyclist shelters beneath the shallow entrance roof of a Japanese apartment building as rain pours down in dense sheets. Beyond the shelter, every patch of pavement erupts with overlapping splashes, and water gushes from the gutter into a rapidly spreading puddle.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

土ど砂しゃ降ぶり

doshaburi

downpour, heavy rain

Example sentences

雨あめが土砂降どしゃぶりになった。
The rain came down in buckets.
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今いま、土砂降どしゃぶりだよ。
It’s raining really hard right now.
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今日きょうは一日中いちにちじゅう、土砂降どしゃぶりだったなあ。
It rained hard all day today.
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Kanji in 土砂降

土soil; earthOnド・トKunつち
砂sandOnサ・シャKunすな
降descend; precipitateOnコウ・ゴKunおりる・おろす・ふる

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