Illustration: On a residential street in a snowy Japanese mountain town, a resident shovels a narrow passage between banks of deeply accumulated snow. Thick snow rests on every roof, long icicles hang from the eaves, and bare branches barely emerge above the drifts.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

真ま冬ふゆ

mafuyu

midwinter

Example sentences

  1. 真冬まふゆにパンツ一枚いちまいで寝ねたら風邪かぜひくよ。

    If you sleep in your underwear during winter, you’ll catch a cold.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 明日あしたも冬型ふゆがたの気圧配置きあつはいちが続つづき、真冬まふゆ並なみの寒さむさとなるでしょう。

    With the winter pressure pattern continuing into tomorrow, it seems it’ll become as cold as midwinter.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. しかもやたらと散歩好さんぽすきで、真冬まふゆだというのに、こうして一日二回いちにちにかいの散歩さんぽは欠かかさずに要求ようきゅうしてくる。

    Moreover, she liked walks so much that even in the middle of winter she would come like this to ask to go out twice a day without fail.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 真冬

  • 真true; realityOnシンKunま・ま-・まこと
  • 冬winterOnトウKunふゆ

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