Word Meaning 土砂

どしゃ dosha

土砂 is read as どしゃ (dosha) and means sediment.

Meaning

English

  1. sediment
  2. earth and sand

Reading

Kana

どしゃ

Romaji

dosha

Writing Variants

  • 土砂 どさ dosa

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 12 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N2 Jōyō Grade 6 Kanken 5級 Rank 4607 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

土砂降り

どしゃぶり

downpour

土砂ダム

どしゃだむ

landslide dam

土砂災害

どしゃさいがい

landslide disaster

土砂災害警戒区域

どしゃさいがいけいかいくいき

sediment-related disaster risk area

土砂崩れ

どしゃくずれ

landslide

真砂土

まさつち

decomposed granite

砂土

さど

sand

土星

どせい

Saturn (planet)

土蔵

どぞう

storehouse with thick (earthen) walls

土団子

つちだんご

mud pie

土地税制

とちぜいせい

land taxation system

土地改良法

とちかいりょうほう

Land Improvement Act (1949, reformed in 2001)

Example Sentences

9

It's raining cats and dogs.

It's pouring outside.

It's raining really hard right now.

It's raining cats and dogs.

The rain came down in buckets.

It was raining heavily in Osaka.

When I woke up this morning, it was raining hard.

It rained hard all day today.

That day, the rain that had been falling since morning seemed as if it was about to stop around the time that the streetlamps are lit, but as night came it suddenly turned into pouring rain.