N2986/1725

飢き饉きん

rarely used kanji formnounnoun (generic)

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ききん

Meanings

famine, crop failure
chronic shortage (e.g. of water)

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Example sentences

江戸えど時代じだいには何度なんども飢饉ききんが起おきた。

Famines occurred many times during the Edo period.

飢饉ききんによって多おおくの人々ひとびとが命いのちを落おとした。

Many people lost their lives due to the famine.

連続れんぞくした干かんばつが深刻しんこくな飢饉ききんを引ひき起おこした。

Consecutive droughts caused a severe famine.

政府せいふは飢饉ききんが広ひろがらないよう緊急きんきゅうの食料しょくりょう支援しえんを行おこなった。

The government provided emergency food aid to prevent the famine from spreading.

気候きこう変動へんどうの影響えいきょうにより、将来的しょうらいてきに水みずの飢饉ききんが深刻化しんこくかする恐おそれがあると専門家せんもんかは警告けいこくしている。

Experts are warning that water shortages may become more serious in the future due to the effects of climate change.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)