だいしんさい
Meanings
Noun
1. great earthquake (disaster)
2. Great Kanto earthquake of 1923
Kanji used
large
tremors
natural disaster
Pitch accent
いし
んさい
Composed of
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
earthquake disaster; Great Kanto Earthquake (1923)
Used in vocabulary (4 in total)
Great Kanto earthquake of 1923
Great East Japan earthquake (March 11, 2011); Tōhoku earthquake; Tohoku earthquake; Sendai earthquake
the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 (the epicenter was located on Awaji island)
the Great Hanshin Earthquake (January 17, 1995)
Examples (1 in total)
My parents and little brother, who lived in the suburbs of Tokyo, died in the big earthquake.