ふさく
Meanings
Noun
1. poor crop; bad harvest; crop failure
2. low quality (e.g. of literary works)
Pitch accent
さく
Composed of
un-; non-; negative prefix
work (e.g. of art); production; harvest; cultivation; technique
Used in vocabulary (1 in total)
a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband; a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband
Examples (6 in total)
We had a poor harvest because of the lack of water.
The rice crop was scanty this year.
The rice crop was poor, owing to the floods.
We had a bad rice crop last year because it rained a lot.
This year's good harvest will make up for last year's bad one.
Unusually low temperatures account for the poor rice crop this year.