キキン
Meanings
Noun
1. famine; crop failure
2. chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
great famine; severe famine
Tenpō famine (1833-1836); Tempo famine
Tenmei famine (1782-1787); Temmei famine
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.