Illustration: From a high hillside after rain, an entire small Japanese river catchment spreads below. Forested ridges surround the valley, and narrow streams descend from several slopes to join tributaries that converge into one main river.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

流りゅう域いき

ryuuiki

river basin

Example sentences

  1. ダムが切きれて流域りゅういきに大水おおみずが押おし寄よせた。

    The dam gave way and sent a great flush of water down the valley.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 激はげしい雨あめがその流域りゅういきに洪水こうずいをもたらした。

    The heavy rain brought floods in the valley.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. その後ご、弥生時代やよいじだいになると由良川ゆらがわ流域りゅういきなど広範囲こうはんいで稲作いなさくが営いとなまれた。

    Rice was grown across a wide area during the Yayoi Period, including the Yuragawa-river basin.

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

Kanji in 流域

  • 流current; a sinkOnリュウ・ルKunながれる・ながれ・ながす
  • 域range; regionOnイキ

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