Illustration: A reinforced mine entrance cuts into a wooded Japanese hillside, with narrow rails emerging from the dark tunnel onto a small ore-loading yard. A miner pushes a low cart full of freshly broken ore past the timber supports.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

鉱こう山ざん

kouzan

mine

Example sentences

  1. この鉱山こうざんは来月閉山らいげつへいざんになる。

    This mine will close down next month.

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  2. その鉱山こうざんは閉鎖へいさしている。

    That mine has shut down.

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  3. 鉱山こうざん労働者ろうどうしゃが賃上ちんあげを要求ようきゅうしてストに突入とつにゅうした。

    The miners went on strike for a wage increase.

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Kanji in 鉱山

  • 鉱mineral; oreOnコウKunあらがね
  • 山mountainOnサン・センKunやま

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