Practice JLPTMeaning
暴騰 (ぼうとう, boutou) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “sudden rise”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 7
株価が 暴騰しています
Stock prices have risen sharply.
厳しい 住宅 不足は１つには 暴騰した 家賃のせいである。
The severe housing shortage is partly to blame for the inflated rents.
享保17年（1732年）には、西国の蝗害により江戸で米価の暴騰が起こり、例年の倍以上の米が出荷されたとある。
In 1732, rice price had a sharp rise in Edo due to poor harvest in the western part of Japan by locust plague, therefore double amount of rice was shipped from Sendai Domain compared to an average year.7
米価の暴騰はとどまりを見せず、1918年8月1日には1石35円を超え、同5日には40円を超え、9日には50円を超えた。
The sharp rise in rice prices never stopped and it rose above 35 yen per 1 koku on August 1, 1918, 40 yen on August 5 and to over 50 yen on August 9.
月末から8月初めにかけては各地の取引所で立会い中止が相次ぎ、地方からの米の出回りが減じ、8月7日には白米小売相場は1升50銭に暴騰した。
The retail price of polished rice soared to 50 sen (One sen is 1/100 of one yen) per 1 sho (1.8 liter) on August 7 since sessions on exchanges in various places were cancelled from the end of July to the beginning of August and the rice supply from the countryside was reduced.
物価が暴騰した. Prices have soared.昨年は建築費が暴騰した. Last year there was a sharp rise in the costs of building.物価は今も暴騰しつつある. Prices are still skyrocketing.厳しい住宅不足は１つには暴騰した家賃のせいである。
The severe housing shortage is partly to blame for the inflated rents.
土地の暴騰で公営住宅は都心から途方もなく遠いところに建っている. Because of the soaring cost of land, public housing is built absurdly far from the center of Tokyo.米価の暴騰は一般市民の生活を苦しめ、新聞が連日米の価格高騰を知らせ煽った事もあり、社会不安を増大させた。
The sharp rise in rice prices made ordinary citizens' lives hard and grew the social anxiety since the newspapers reported the rise in rice prices daily and fueled it.