飢き饉きん
Meanings
Noun
1. famine; crop failure
2. chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
Kanji used
hunger
hunger
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (9 in total)
great famine; severe famine
Tenpō famine (1833-1836); Tempo famine
Great Famine (Ireland)
Examples (5 in total)
Because of the famine, the cattle starved to death.
Famine followed upon the eruption of the volcano.
If the harvest gets any worse, there could be a famine.
The prospect of famine hangs over many areas of the world.
The long drought was followed by famine.