きん
Meanings
Noun
1. famine; crop failure
2. chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
Kanji used
hunger
hunger
Pitch accent
きん
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Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
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
drought; water shortage
Orissa famine of 1866
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.