Illustration: A rice farmer crouches at the edge of a paddy whose exposed soil has split into deep cracks around drooping rice plants. The irrigation channel beside the field is dry except for a tiny isolated puddle. Farther back, the reservoir bank shows a broad exposed strip beneath its usual waterline.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

干かんばつ

kanbatsu

drought

Example sentences

長ながい干かんばつの間あいだに多おおくの樹きが枯かれた。
Many trees died during the long drought.
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その長ながい干かんばつの後のちに飢饉ききんが起おこった。
The long drought was followed by famine.
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その干かんばつで多おおくの人ひとと動物どうぶつが餓死がしした。
In the drought, many people and animals starved to death.
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Kanji in 干

干dry; parchOnカンKunほす・ほし-・ひる

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