雪崩

Japanese JLPT N1 Vocabulary Japanese ★★★ 3/5 neutral なだれnadare
読み なだれ
ローマ字 nadare
漢字の分解 雪 (yuki/setsu) — snow; 崩 (hō/kuzure) — collapse, crumble
発音 /na.da.ɾe/

意味

Avalanche; snowslide. A mass of snow suddenly detaching from a mountain slope and rushing downward with great force.

A compound noun combining 雪 (snow) and the sense of 崩れ (collapse), though in this reading the 崩 character is pronounced as part of the native reading なだれ. Avalanches are a serious winter hazard in Japan's mountainous regions, particularly in the Japan Alps. The word also appears figuratively in political or social contexts to describe an unstoppable wave of change or reaction.

例文

  1. 大量の積雪を抱えた斜面で雪崩が発生し、登山者数名が行方不明になった。
  2. 気温が急上昇した翌日、山腹から雪崩が轟音とともに落下した。
  3. 雪崩の危険区域には立入禁止の標識が設置されている。

使い方ガイド

場面: winter disasters, mountain safety, news

トーン: serious

起源と歴史

Native Japanese compound. 雪 (yuki) means snow, and the reading なだれ comes from the verb 傾れる or 崩れる, describing a collapsing, tumbling motion down a slope.

文化的背景

時代: Classical–Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal

関連フレーズ

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