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JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

残ざん暑しょ

zansho

lingering summer heat

Example sentences

  1. 残暑ざんしょ厳きびしい折おりいかがお過すごしでしょうか。

    How are you doing in this scorching late summer heat?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 今いまでいえば八月下旬はちがつげじゅんで、残暑ざんしょ厳きびしい折おりではあるが、そのために乳酸菌にゅうさんきんの発酵はっこうが容易よういだったなどのメリットもあった。

    Although the season corresponds to the present-day end of August when the lingering summer heat is intense, there were such benefits as fermentation of lactic acid bacterium was easy because of that.

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

  3. 九月くがつに入はいっても、残暑ざんしょが続つづいている。

    The lingering summer heat has continued into September.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 残暑

  • 残remainder; leftoverOnザン・サンKunのこる・のこす・そこなう
  • 暑heat; hot weatherOnショKunあつい

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