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飢き饉きん
Meanings
Noun
1. famine; crop failure
2. chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
Alt. forms
飢き饉きん
86%
饑き饉きん
6%
ききん
5%
飢ききん
1%
Kanji used
飢
hunger
饉
hunger
Pitch accent
き
き
ん
き
きん
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Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
severe famine
Great Famine (Ireland)
impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests
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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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