Illustration: A concrete irrigation channel runs through a Japanese farming settlement, feeding smaller channels into several carefully tended rice paddies. In the foreground, a farmer lifts a sluice gate and water enters the nearest field, joining the flow already sustaining neighboring plots.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

基き盤ばん

kiban

foundation, basis

Example sentences

愛あいを基盤きばんに生いきている。
Love is the bedrock of my life.
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２１世紀せいきは経済力けいざいりょくを基盤きばんとするようになるだろう。
The 21st century is going to be based on economic power.
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そうした制度せいどは、社会しゃかいの構成員こうせいいんが価値かちを持もっていると考かんがえている物ものにその基盤きばんが置おかれた。
They were based on goods which the members of a society recognized as having value.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 基盤

基fundamentals; counter for machinesOnキKunもと・もとい
盤tray; shallow bowlOnバン

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