Illustration: Deep inside a working Japanese coal mine, two helmeted miners stand beside an exposed coal seam supported by heavy tunnel braces. One inspects the freshly worked face while the other steadies a low rail cart filled with irregular chunks of coal.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

炭たん鉱こう

tankou

coal mine

Example sentences

  1. あの支部しぶは炭鉱たんこう労働組合ろうどうくみあいに属ぞくしている。

    That branch is affiliated to the miners' union.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 炭鉱たんこうの内部ないぶに多おおくの労働者ろうどうしゃが閉とじ込こめられた。

    Many workers were trapped in the coal mine.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 主おもに、沿線えんせんの炭鉱たんこうから産出さんしゅつされる石炭せきたんを積出港つみだしこうに運搬うんぱんする役目やくめを担になった。

    It mainly served to transport coal produced from the coal mines along the railway lines to the port of shipment.

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

Kanji in 炭鉱

  • 炭charcoal; coalOnタンKunすみ
  • 鉱mineral; oreOnコウKunあらがね

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