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だいしんさい
Meanings
Noun
1. great earthquake (disaster); highly destructive earthquake
Alt. forms
大だい震しん災さい
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だいしんさい
Pitch accent
だ
いし
んさい
Composed of
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
earthquake disaster
Used in vocabulary (4 in total)
Great Kanto earthquake (1923)
Great East Japan earthquake (March 11, 2011); Tōhoku earthquake; Tohoku earthquake; Sendai earthquake
Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake (1995)
Great Hanshin Earthquake (1995)
Examples (1 in total)
My parents and little brother, who lived in the suburbs of Tokyo, died in the big earthquake.