Illustration: Beside a rural grain mill, water from a narrow wooden channel pours onto the paddles of a large wheel. Its axle passes through the mill wall into an exposed mechanism that lifts and releases a heavy wooden grain pounder.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

水すい力りょく

suiryoku

water power

Example sentences

  1. 明治時代めいじじだい、東側ひがしがわに隣接りんせつする蹴上けあげの地域ちいきに、琵琶湖疏水びわこそすいが引ひかれ、日本初にっぽんはつの水力すいりょく発電所はつでんしょが建設けんせつされた。

    In the Meiji period, the Lake Biwa Canal was extended to the Keage area which bordered Okazaki to the east, and Japan’s first hydroelectric power station was constructed.

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

  2. 深坑郷を流れる淡水河の支流である南勢溪を利用した水力発電所を建設し、台北市への電力供給を開始した。

    He constructed a hydraulic power plant, which used the Nanshi River, a branch river of the Danshui River running in Shenkeng Township to start a power supply to Taipei City.

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

  3. その結果日月潭が建設予定地に選定され、日月潭と門牌潭に落差320mの水力発電所建設が着工された。

    As a result, Sun Moon Lake was chosen as the construction site and the construction of the hydraulic power plant, which had a drop of 320 m between Sun Moon Lake and Menpai Lake, started.

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

Kanji in 水力

  • 水waterOnスイKunみず・みず-
  • 力power; strengthOnリョク・リキ・リイKunちから

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