Illustration: At the edge of a lowland wetland outside a Japanese town, shallow still water lies among thick reeds, sedges, and patches of floating leaves. Mud shows through near the bank, where a visitor's rubber boot has sunk deeply and remained stuck as they pull their foot upward.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

沼ぬま

numa

marsh, swamp, pond

Example sentences

  1. その沼ぬまにはサギがたくさん住すんでいる。

    Lots of herons live in the marsh.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. ここに小ちいさな沼ぬまがあります。

    There is a small pond here.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 巨人きょじんの足跡あしあとは数々かずかずの沼ぬまになった。

    The footprints of the giant became a number of marshes.

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

Kanji in 沼

  • 沼marsh; lakeOnショウKunぬま

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