Illustration: Behind a modest rural house, a resident lifts freshly dug potatoes from a small vegetable plot directly into a basket held by their partner at the kitchen doorway. Through the open doorway, a pot and cutting board await the harvest, with bowls set for the household's evening meal.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

自じ給きゅう

jikyuu

to supply for oneself

Example sentences

  1. しかし鎖国後さこくごは、もっぱら国内重視こくないじゅうしの政策せいさくが採とられ、基本的きほんてきに国内こくない自給じきゅう経済けいざいが形成けいせいされた。

    After closing the country, however, the national policy focused exclusively on domestic affairs, and a domestically self-supported economy was formed.

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

  2. 起源きげんは諸説しょせつがあるが、天保時代てんぽうじだいに吉野川よしのがわの船頭せんどうが、家族かぞくの自給じきゅう用ようや副業ふくぎょうとして始はじめた説せつが有力ゆうりょくである。

    There are many opinions about its origin, and the dominant theory is that a boatman in the Yoshino-gawa River started producing it to feed his own family and as a side business in Tenpo era.

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

  3. 食糧しょくりょうの自給じきゅうをほとんどしなくなったことや、都会風とかいふうの蕎麦そばの食たべ方かたの普及ふきゅうにより、地域ちいきごとに特色とくしょくのあった蕎麦そばの食たべ方かたは廃すたれつつある。

    Due to the fact that a self-supporting life style has become virtually non-existent and eating soba in urban fashion has become widespread, the way of eating soba which once had the distinct characteristic of each region is on the brink of obsolesce today.

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

Kanji in 自給

  • 自oneselfOnジ・シKunみずから・おのずから・おのずと
  • 給salary; wageOnキュウKunたまう・たもう

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