Illustration: At a small Japanese house construction site, an excavated inspection trench exposes the compact layers of earth directly beneath a concrete footing. The partly built house rises above, making the supporting relationship visible.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

地じ盤ばん

jiban

ground, soil

Example sentences

  1. 低地ていちには軟弱なんじゃくな地盤じばんが多おおい。

    In lowlands soft ground is common.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. 日本にっぽんは山岳国さんがくこくであり、他国たこくに比ひして地盤じばんが弱よわい傾向けいこうがある。

    With Japan being mountainous, the ground tends to be less solid than that of other countries.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 地震じしんで地盤じばんが隆起りゅうきしてきた。

    The earthquake caused the ground to rise.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

Kanji in 地盤

  • 地ground; earthOnチ・ジ
  • 盤tray; shallow bowlOnバン

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