Illustration: A delivery cyclist has stopped beneath the deep entrance awning of a Japanese apartment building as rain hammers the street. Dense falling water obscures the opposite houses, rebounds from the pavement, and pours from a gutter in a continuous sheet.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

豪ごう雨う

gouu

torrential rain, downpour

Example sentences

  1. 豪雨ごううの結果けっか、洪水こうずいが起おこった。

    There were floods as a result of the heavy rain.

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  2. その試合しあいは、豪雨ごううのため中止ちゅうしとなった。

    The match has been canceled due to heavy rain.

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  3. 豪雨ごううのせいで、私わたしたちは学校がっこうに遅刻ちこくしてしまった。

    We were late for school because it rained heavily.

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Kanji in 豪雨

  • 豪overpowering; greatOnゴウKunえらい
  • 雨rainOnウKunあめ・あま-

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