Illustration: At the open entrance of a ground-floor Japanese home after a river flood, muddy water still covers the genkan and reaches the raised room beyond. A swollen tatami mat has lifted at one corner, and a low cabinet stands crooked with waterlogged drawers.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

水すい害がい

suigai

flood damage, flood disaster

Example sentences

  1. トムは水害すいがい保険ほけんに入はいってないんだよ。

    Tom doesn’t have flood insurance.

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  2. その際さいの礼状れいじょうがあったが、昭和しょうわ28年ねんの大だい水害すいがいで失うしなわれた。

    There were a letter of thanks for his instruction; however, it was lost by the flood disaster in 1953.

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

  3. 以後何度いごなんども水害すいがいにより流失りゅうしつし、そのたびに架かけ直なおされている。

    It was washed away by floods many times, but was always rebuilt following each incident.

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

Kanji in 水害

  • 水waterOnスイKunみず・みず-
  • 害harm; injuryOnガイ

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