Illustration: At the edge of a harvested rice field, a farmer tips the last small bundle of thin rice stalks into a broad collection basket. Most stalks have sparse, poorly filled heads, and the basket's bottom remains plainly visible.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

凶きょう作さく

kyousaku

poor harvest

Example sentences

  1. 昨年さくねんは異常いじょうな冷夏れいかで、稲作いなさくは10年ねんぶりの凶作きょうさくだった。

    It was exceptionally cold last summer, and the rice crop was the worst in 10 years.

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  2. 米作べいさくは今年ことしは凶作きょうさくだ。

    The rice crop is poor this year.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. しかし、これがかえって出費しゅっぴを招まねき、さらに領内りょうないも凶作きょうさくが相次あいついで財政ざいせいに苦くるしんだといわれる。

    However, this cost a lot and years of poor harvest continued in his territory, and he suffered from financial difficulties.

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

Kanji in 凶作

  • 凶villain; evilOnキョウ
  • 作make; productionOnサク・サKunつくる・つくり

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