Entry
  1. Noun

    drought; long spell of dry weather

    すぐにでもエチオピアに雨が降らなければ、深刻な干ばつの問題が起こるだろう。
    Unless it rains in Ethiopia soon, there could be severe drought problems.

Also written 干ばつ【かんばつ】干魃【かんばつ】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

drought, dry weather

Kun
ひでり
On
カン
Strokes
7
Radical
sun

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Dictionary and index codes (14)
CodeReference
2-4-3SKIP code
4c3.1The Kanji Dictionary
6040.1Four corner code
65f1Unicode hex code
1-58-61JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2101Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2421New Nelson (John Haig)
2396New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3048Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2441Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2518Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
13752Morohashi
han4Pinyin reading
hanKorean reading
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(god of) drought

On
ハツバツ
Strokes
15
Radical
ghost

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (10)
CodeReference
3-10-5SKIP code
5f10.2The Kanji Dictionary
2321.4Four corner code
9b43Unicode hex code
1-82-17JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5279Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6836New Nelson (John Haig)
45806Morohashi
ba2Pinyin reading
balKorean reading