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米価べいか (beika)

price of rice

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Meaning

米価 (べいか, beika) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “price of rice”.

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Example sentences 9

今年ことしは米価べいかが下さがっています

The price of rice has fallen this year.

米価べいかは政府せいふによって統制とうせいされている。

Rice prices are regulated by the government.

(米価の場合は札差・米問屋が対象となる)。

(In the case of the rice price, fudasashi [a trader who received or sold rice preserved in a depository by the Edo Shogunate and domains on behalf of the government] and rice warehouse merchants were eligible for Haishakukin.)

吉宗が最も心を砕いたのは米価の安定であった。

He directed his attention toward stabilizing the rice price more than anything else.

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