Illustration: At a fenced demolition site in a Japanese residential neighborhood, a worker in protective equipment stands beside a heap of broken roof tiles, jagged concrete chunks, bricks, and crumbled mortar. A partly dismantled wall behind the heap makes the material's origin clear.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

瓦が礫れき

gareki

rubble, debris

Example sentences

  1. 校舎こうしゃの跡地あとちは瓦礫がれきの山やまとなっている。

    There is a large pile of rubble where the school building used to be.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 一連いちれんの爆発ばくはつで、その研究施設けんきゅうしせつは瓦礫がれきの山やまと化かした。

    A series of blasts reduced the laboratory to ruins.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 救助隊きゅうじょたいは何日なんにちも瓦礫がれきの下したにいた生存者せいぞんしゃの発見はっけんに成功せいこうした。

    The rescue team succeeded in discovering a survivor who had been under the rubble for several days.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 瓦礫

  • 瓦tile; gramOnガKunかわら・ぐらむ
  • 礫small stonesOnレキKunつぶて・こいし

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