Illustration: After floodwater has receded from a Japanese residential street, a couple stand inside their damaged ground-floor home. A muddy waterline crosses the walls, tatami mats have buckled, and a refrigerator sits crookedly among waterlogged belongings.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

被ひ災さい

hisai

to be affected by a disaster

Example sentences

  1. 被災ひさい地ちに救援物資きゅうえんぶっしが急送きゅうそうされた。

    Relief supplies were raced to the disaster area.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 市しは地震じしんの被災ひさい者しゃに食料しょくりょうと毛布もうふを支給しきゅうした。

    The city supplied the earthquake victims with food and blankets.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 私わたしたちは洪水こうずいの被災ひさい者しゃに食たべ物ものと衣類いるいを提供ていきょうした。

    We provided the flood victims with food and clothing.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 被災

  • 被incur; coverOnヒKunこうむる・おおう・かぶる
  • 災disaster; calamityOnサイKunわざわい

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