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飢き饉きん
Meanings
Noun
1. famine; crop failure
2. chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
Alt. forms
飢き饉きん
92%
饑き饉きん
6%
飢ききん
Kanji used
飢
hunger
饉
hunger
Pitch accent
き
き
ん
き
きん
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Used in vocabulary (9 in total)
great famine; severe famine
Tenpō famine (1833-1836); Tempo famine
Great Famine (Ireland)
Tenmei famine (1782-1787); Temmei famine
Kyōhō famine (1732)
drought; water shortage
impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests
Orissa famine of 1866
Rajputana famine of 1869
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.
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