Illustration: Behind an Edo merchant's storehouse, a household member lowers a sealed earthenware jar into a deep pit while another shovels soil over its base. A second open jar beside them reveals strings of coins awaiting the same treatment.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

埋まい蔵ぞう

maizou

to bury underground

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれらは埋蔵まいぞうされた宝物ほうもつを求もとめて砂漠さばくを探検たんけんした。

    They explored the desert in quest of buried treasure.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 埋蔵まいぞう文化財ぶんかざいは、他ほかの文化財ぶんかざいとは異ことなり土地とちに埋蔵まいぞうされている状態じょうたいにある文化財ぶんかざいである。

    Buried cultural properties, unlike other cultural properties, are cultural properties that exist in such a state that they’re buried underground.

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

  3. しかしこれによって、埋蔵まいぞう文化財調査ぶんかざいちょうさの経費けいひと期間きかんが必要ひつようとなった。

    Accordingly, the decision required a certain amount of cost and time for the research of buried cultural properties.

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

Kanji in 埋蔵

  • 埋bury; be filled upOnマイKunうめる・うまる・うもれる
  • 蔵storehouse; hideOnゾウ・ソウKunくら・おさめる・かくれる

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