ききん
Meanings
Noun
1. famine; crop failure
2. chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
Pitch accent
きん
Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
severe famine
Great Famine (Ireland)
drought; water shortage
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.
The prospect of famine hangs over many areas of the world.
The long drought was followed by famine.