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雨期 (うき, uki) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “rainy season”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 10
日本の 雨期は 六月 頃です。
The Japanese rainy season is around June.
雨期は 六月から 始まる。
The rainy season begins in June.
安居とは元々、サンスクリット語の雨期を日本語に訳したものである。
Ango was originally a Sanskrit expression meaning the rainy season, which was translated into Japanese.
うっとうしい梅雨期に、すっきりしない話で恐縮ですが、少しの間お付き合いください。
I'm ashamed to tell such a muddled story in this dreary rainy season but please bear with me for a while.
後に雨期のある夏に行う事から、夏安居（げあんご）、雨安居（うあんご）とも呼ばれるようになった。
Because ango takes place during the summer having the rainy season, it came to be called geango (summer ango), or uango (rain ango).
雨期になった. The rainy season has [The rains have] set in.雨期は六月から始まる。
The rainy season begins in June.
梅雨期間の終了発表のことを俗に梅雨明け宣言というが、気象庁の発表によって梅雨が明けるわけではない。
Announcement of the end of the period of baiu is called tsuyuake sengen (declaration of tsuyuake), but baiu does not end because of the declaration by the Japan Meteorological Agency.
梅雨期間中の5月に122mm、6月に2242mm、7月に2299mm、8月に1717mmの雨が降った。
During the period of baiu, it rained 122 mm in May, 2,242 mm in June, 2,299 mm in July and 1,717 mm in August.
一方、梅雨期間中の晴れ間は梅雨晴れ（つゆばれ）または梅雨の晴れ間と呼ばれ、特に気温が高く、湿度も高い。
On the other hand, sunny spells during the period of baiu is called "tsuyubare" or "tsuyu no harema," and during such periods, the air temperature gets high and humidity is also high.
沖（2011-12）によれば、例年の洪水は雨期（5～10 月）後半の降雨によって一時的に水嵩が増すことで氾濫するのに対し、昨年の洪水は雨期の全期間に渡る多量の降雨による大規模な氾濫であった。
According to Oki (2011?2012), in regular years, the rivers would flood due to a temporary increase in the volume of stream flow from rainfall in the latter half of the rainy season (May October). However, a large volume of water flow last year was caused by a huge amount of rainfall during the entire course of the rainy season.