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洪水
kouzui
Description
洪水は、たくさんの雨がふって、川の水があふれることです。
A 洪水 is when a lot of rain falls and the river water overflows.
洪水になると、家や道が水につかって、あぶないです。
When there is a 洪水, houses and roads get flooded and it is dangerous.
Meanings
洪水kouzui
a flood; overflowing of water onto land
大雨で川が洪水になりました。
The river flooded due to heavy rain.
洪水kouzui
a flood or deluge of something (figurative)
毎日、情報の洪水にあふれています。
Every day, we are overwhelmed by a flood of information.
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Notes
- Etymology
洪 (large, vast) + 水 (water), literally 'vast water'.
- Nuance
often used figuratively, as in 情報の洪水 (a flood of information).
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