Illustration: On a maintained track through a Japanese cedar plantation, a forestry worker guides a compact loader carrying neatly cut logs toward a waiting truck. Beyond him stand evenly spaced mature trees, several fresh stumps, and a protected area of newly planted saplings.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

林りん業ぎょう

ringyou

forestry

Example sentences

  1. 林業りんぎょうや製炭せいたんといった主力産業しゅりょくさんぎょうが年としとともに衰退すいたいしていった。

    The main businesses there, such as the forest industry and the business of making charcoal, continued to decline year by year.

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

  2. 第一次産業だいいちじさんぎょうが基盤きばんであり、漁業ぎょぎょう・林業りんぎょう・農業のうぎょうが主おもであった。

    The industry was based on primary industries, mainly fishery, forestry and farming.

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

  3. 北村家きたむらけは、奈良県吉野地方ならけんよしのちほうで代々だいだい林業りんぎょうを営いとなむ旧家きゅうかである。

    The Kitamuras are an old family who have been engaged in forestry over many generations in Yoshino, Nara Prefecture.

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

Kanji in 林業

  • 林grove; forestOnリンKunはやし
  • 業business; vocationOnギョウ・ゴウKunわざ

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