Illustration: On a clear morning outside a home in northern Japan, a resident opens the front door onto a deep, settled layer of snow. A shoveled passage reveals a thick vertical snowbank beside the steps, while the gateposts and parked bicycle carry rounded caps.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

積せき雪せつ

sekisetsu

accumulated snow, snow cover

Example sentences

  1. 積雪せきせつの影響えいきょうで配達はいたつに遅おくれが生しょうじている。

    Delays in deliveries are occurring due to accumulated snow.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 黄砂こうさが雪ゆきに混まじると、積雪せきせつが黄色きいろや赤色あかいろに変色へんしょくすることもある。

    When kosa is mingled with snow, the accumulating snow may become yellow or red.

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

  3. まれに降雪こうせつがあり、若干じゃっかんの積雪せきせつが観測かんそくされた際さいも、試運転しうんてんの開始時かいしじには雪ゆきが溶とけてしまい、テストにならなかった。

    Even when snow happened to fall and a small amount of snow accumulation was observed, the snow melted before starting test runs, not constituting a test.

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

Kanji in 積雪

  • 積volume; product (x*y)OnセキKunつむ・つもる・つもり
  • 雪snowOnセツKunゆき

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