Illustration: After a night of rain, a groundskeeper at a Japanese elementary school crouches beside a rain gauge mounted in an open patch of the school garden. Its collection funnel feeds a transparent measuring cylinder holding a substantial depth of water, with simple graduation marks along the side.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

降こう水すい量りょう

kousuiryou

amount of precipitation

Example sentences

  1. 大台ケ原おおだいがはらには及およばないものの、野迫川のせがわでも年間ねんかん降水量こうすいりょうは2000から3000ミリメートルに達たっし、多雨地帯たうちたいである。

    In Nosegawa, the annual precipitation is 2000 to 3000 millimeters, and although it is less than the precipitation in Odaigahara, it can be called an area with has a high rainfall.

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

  2. 台湾南部たいわんなんぶに広ひろがる嘉南平原かなんへいげんは大河川だいかせんが存在そんざいしない上うえに降水量こうすいりょうが乏とぼしい地域ちいきであり、秋あきから冬ふゆにかけては荒涼こうりょうとした荒野あらのになっていた。

    The Chianan Plain in the southern part of Taiwan was a barren territory, especially during the autumn and winter, as it had no major rivers and little rain.

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

  3. 秋あき・冬ふゆの降水量こうすいりょうが少すくない北部九州ほくぶきゅうしゅうや瀬戸内地方せとうちちほうなどでは、空梅雨からつゆの後のち、台風たいふうなどによるまとまった雨あめがない場合ばあい、渇水かっすいが1年以上続ねんいじょうつづくこともある。

    In the northern Kyushu and Setouchi regions in which the amount of rainfall in autumn and winter is small, if there is no considerable amount of rainfall by typhoon and so on after karatsuyu, such drought continues for more than a year sometimes.

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

Kanji in 降水量

  • 降descend; precipitateOnコウ・ゴKunおりる・おろす・ふる
  • 水waterOnスイKunみず・みず-
  • 量quantity; measureOnリョウKunはかる

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