Illustration: Beside a small industrial building in a Japanese town, oily wastewater pours from a damaged drainpipe into a narrow stream. Upstream, stones remain visible through clear water; below the pipe, a greasy film spreads across the surface and gathers around reeds.

JLPT N3suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

汚お染せん

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to pollute, to contaminate

Example sentences

  1. 汚染おせんが地球ちきゅうを傷きずつけている。

    Pollution is damaging our earth.

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  2. 大気たいきが汚染おせんされつつある。

    The atmosphere is being polluted.

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  3. 環境かんきょうを汚染おせんする工場こうじょうもある。

    Some factories pollute the environment.

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Kanji in 汚染

  • 汚dirty; polluteOnオKunけがす・けがれる・けがらわしい
  • 染dye; colorOnセンKunそめる・そまる・しみる

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