きん
Meanings
Noun
1. Hungersnot; Nahrungsmittel-Knappheit; Hungerkatastrophe
2. Mangel; Knappheit
Kanji used
hunger
hunger
Pitch accent
きん
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Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
Great Famine (Ireland)
Armut durch eine gute Ernte (weil die Preis fallen)
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.