Illustration: Along a residential Japanese street, a deep ground fissure crosses the road and continues beneath a house whose foundation has visibly shifted. Roof tiles have fallen, a concrete boundary wall has collapsed, and utility poles lean at different angles.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

震しん災さい

shinsai

earthquake disaster

Example sentences

  1. 震災しんさい後ごこのエリアの地価ちかは大おおきく下さがった。

    After the earthquake, the land value in this area went down a lot.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 震災しんさいで失うしなわれたモノ

    what was lost in the disaster

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 日本にっぽんが未曽有みぞうの震災しんさいに見舞みまわれました。

    Japan was struck by an unprecedented earthquake disaster.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

Kanji in 震災

  • 震quake; shakeOnシンKunふるう・ふるえる・ふるわせる
  • 災disaster; calamityOnサイKunわざわい

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