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大地震

Meanings, readings, and example sentences for the Japanese word 大地震.

Dictionary

Entry

大地震おじしんいじしんNounFreq #29436
1

major earthquake; large earthquake

Examples
ニュースによるとギリシアに大地震があったようだ。
The news says that there was a big earthquake in Greece.

Character notes

Kanji in this Word

large, big

3 strokesFrequency 7JLPT N4Grade 1

On

ダイタイ

Kun

おお-おお.きい-おお.いに

Nanori

うふおうたかしともはじめひろひろしまさまさるもと

ground, earth

6 strokesFrequency 40JLPT N3Grade 2

On

Nanori

どま

quake, shake, tremble, quiver, shiver

15 strokesFrequency 893JLPT N2Grade 8

On

シン

Kun

ふる.うふる.えるふる.わせるふる.わす

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