Illustration: A swollen river has spilled over a low embankment into a Japanese residential lane. Muddy water surrounds garden walls, covers the road, and reaches halfway up a parked bicycle's wheels.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

洪こう水ずい

kouzui

flood

Example sentences

洪水こうずいがその村むらを飲のみ込こんでしまった。
The flood overwhelmed the village.
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洪水こうずいで橋はしが壊こわれた。
The bridge gave way because of the flood.
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堤防ていぼうが洪水こうずいを防ふせいだ。
The levee kept the floodwater back.
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Kanji in 洪水

洪deluge; floodOnコウ
水waterOnスイKunみず・みず-

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