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ききん
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
5%
飢ききん
ききん
Pitch accent
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Used in: 10
Used in vocabulary (10 in total)
drought; water shortage
great famine; severe famine
Tenpō famine (1833-1836); Tempo famine
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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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