Illustration: Steady rain falls across a small Japanese school's weather-observation garden. Droplets visibly strike the opening of a transparent collection cylinder standing clear of the building and trees; a modest amount of water has gathered inside.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

降こう水すい

kousui

precipitation

Often appears in 降水量 and 降水確率. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. アメダスによればこの3日間かかんで村むらの降水こうすい量りょうは1200ミリを超こえた。

    According to AMeDAS, the amount of precipitation in the village has exceeded 1,200 mm in three days.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 今夏こんかの降水こうすい量りょうは普通ふつうでなかった。

    This summer we had an unusual amount of rain.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 発生地はっせいちで降水こうすい量りょうが多おおいとその後ごの黄砂こうさの発生はっせいは減へる傾向けいこうにある。

    When much rain falls in a place where kosa is supposed to occur, the occurrence frequency of kosa there tends to decrease thereafter.

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

Kanji in 降水

  • 降descend; precipitateOnコウ・ゴKunおりる・おろす・ふる
  • 水waterOnスイKunみず・みず-

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