Illustration: Inside a Japanese natural-history museum, a child leans toward a large glass-fronted desert habitat diorama. Beyond the glass, successive dunes surround an exposed rocky ridge, with only one sparse dry shrub breaking the bare terrain. There is no shoreline or body of water.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

砂さ漠ばく

sabaku

desert

Example sentences

  1. サハラは広大こうだいな砂漠さばくです。

    The Sahara is a vast desert.

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  2. 夕闇ゆうやみが砂漠さばくをつつんだ。

    Dusk fell over the desert.

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  3. 砂漠さばくの砂すなは夜よるになると急速きゅうそくに冷ひえる。

    Desert sand cools off rapidly at night.

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Kanji in 砂漠

  • 砂sandOnサ・シャKunすな
  • 漠vague; obscureOnバク

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