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飢き饉きん
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Meanings
Noun
1. famine; crop failure
2. chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
Other spellings
飢ききん
Kanji used
飢hunger饉hunger
Pitch accent
ききん
ききん
Used in vocabulary
水みず飢き饉きん
drought; water shortage
Noun
豊ほう作さく飢き饉きん
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
Noun
大だい飢き饉きん
great famine; severe famine
Noun
Examples12
These countries were often visited with famine.
Famine stared us in the face.
The prospect of famine hangs over many areas of the world.
Famine followed upon the eruption of the volcano.
More often than not, famine is accompanied by plague.
Disease and famine go together.