凶作 (kyousaku)

bad harvest, poor crop

  • JLPT N1

Meaning

凶作 (きょうさく, kyousaku) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “bad harvest, poor crop”.

Kanji in this word

Example sentences 2

昨年さくねん異常いじょう冷夏れいかで、稲作いなさくは10ねんぶりの凶作きょうさくだった。

It was exceptionally cold last summer, and the rice crop was the worst in 10 years.

米作は今年は凶作だ。

The rice crop is poor this year.