ききん
Meanings
Noun
1. Hungersnot; Nahrungsmittel-Knappheit; Hungerkatastrophe
2. Mangel; Knappheit
Pitch accent
きん
Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
severe famine
Great Famine (Ireland)
Wassermangel; Wassernot
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.