Word Meaning 大飢饉

だいききん daikikin

大飢饉 is read as だいききん (daikikin) and means great famine.

Meaning

English

great famine
severe famine

Reading

Kana

だいききん

Romaji

daikikin

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 33 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

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Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

天保の大飢饉

てんぽうのだいききん

Great Tempo Famine

飢饉

ききん

chronic shortage (e.g. of water)

天明の飢饉

てんめいのききん

Tenmei famine (1782-1787)

天保の飢饉

てんぽうのききん

Tenpō famine (1833-1836)

豊作飢饉

ほうさくききん

impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest

水飢饉

みずききん

drought

享保の飢饉

きょうほうのききん

Kyōhō famine (1732)

大根

だいこ

daikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus)

大勢

おおぜい

in great numbers

大切

たいせち

careful

大人

おとな

adult

大丈夫

だいじょぶ

great man