Illustration: On a rural Japanese village lane, the last boxes from a family home are being loaded into a small moving truck. A child in the passenger seat waves to two elderly neighbors standing outside the next house.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

過か疎そ

kaso

depopulation

Example sentences

  1. 茅葺屋根の民家が残る地域であるが、近年過疎化が進んでいる。

    Thatched private houses still remain in this area, but the population has been increasingly on the decline.

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

  2. 過疎かその田舎町いなかまち

    a depopulated rural town

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. なお、山間部さんかんぶの集落しゅうらくでは過疎かそ化かが著いちじるしく、麓ふもとの市街地しがいちとは対照的たいしょうてきな表情ひょうじょうを見みせている。

    Settlements in the mountain area have serious depopulation problems, which makes a contrast with the situation of downtowns at the foot of mountains.

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

Kanji in 過疎

  • 過overdo; exceedOnカKunすぎる・すごす・あやまち
  • 疎alienate; roughOnソ・ショKunうとい・うとむ・まばら

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