Word Meaning 土砂降り

どしゃぶり doshaburi

土砂降り is read as どしゃぶり (doshaburi) and means downpour.

Meaning

English

  1. downpour
  2. pouring rain
  3. heavy rain
  4. pelting rain
  5. cloudburst

Reading

Kana

どしゃぶり

Romaji

doshaburi

Writing Variants

  • どしゃ降り どしゃぶり doshaburi

Stroke Sequence

4 Characters • 24 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N2 Jōyō Grade 6 Kanken 5級 Rank 9168 Priority B

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

土砂

どしゃ

sediment

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

土蔵造り

どぞうづくり

house built like a kura, with the walls covered in mud

土俵入り

どひょういり

entrance procession of wrestlers into the ring

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

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.