Illustration: In an Edo-period farming village, several households gather around a communal cooking pot containing a little thin gruel. Beside them, a grain store stands open: its rice bins are empty, and a villager tilts the final straw sack without anything falling out.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

飢き饉きん

kikin

famine

Example sentences

  1. これらの国くにはしばしば飢饉ききんに襲おそわれた。

    These countries were often visited with famine.

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  2. 飢饉ききんのために、家畜かちくが餓死がしした。

    Because of the famine, the cattle starved to death.

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  3. 飢饉ききんに病気びょうきはつきものだ。

    Disease and famine go together.

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Kanji in 飢饉

  • 飢hungry; starveOnキKunうえる
  • 饉hungerOnキンKunうえる

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