Illustration: In a Japanese rice farmer's packing shed, a family compares this year's stacked rice sacks with a row of photographs from previous harvests. Each photograph shows the same family in the same shed, with children visibly growing older and sack piles usually reaching the same beam.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

平へい年ねん

heinen

average year

Used when comparing weather or harvests with typical years. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

農作物のうさくもつは平年へいねん並なみだ。
The crops are up to the average.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
今年ことしの冬ふゆは、気温きおんが平年へいねんより高たかめです。
The temperature is above average this winter.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
すなわち、平年へいねんより少すくないとの予報よほうであっても、決けっして絶対量ぜったいりょうが少すくないとは限かぎらない。
Therefore even if a forecast predicts levels lower than those of an average year, this does not necessarily mean that levels will be low.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 平年

平even; flatOnヘイ・ビョウ・ヒョウKunたいら・たいらげる・ひら
年year; counter for yearsOnネンKunとし

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