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    3. 自給自足

    自給自足

    自じきゅ給う自じそ足く

    self-sufficiency

    KMT9News #29+1Noun, Participle, Verb, TransitiveDaily LifeKanji Vocab31 strokes

    じきゅうじそく

    Noun, Participle, Verb, Transitive

    1.
    self-sufficiency
    yojijukugo

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    彼かれらは山やま奥おくで自じ給きゅう自じ足そくの生せい活かつをしている。

    They live a self-sufficient life deep in the mountains.

    KMT7Daily LifeNature & Environment
    庭にわで野や菜さいを育そだて、卵たまごを産うむ鶏にわとりを飼かうことで、ある程てい度どの自じ給きゅう自じ足そくが可か能のうだ。

    By growing vegetables in the garden and raising chickens that lay eggs, a certain degree of self-sufficiency is possible.

    KMT8Food & DiningHome & HousingAnimals
    現げん代だい社しゃ会かいで完かん全ぜんに自じ給きゅう自じ足そくの生せい活かつを送おくるのは難むずかしい。

    It is difficult to live a completely self-sufficient life in modern society.

    KMT9Daily Life
    災さい害がい時じを想そう定ていし、食しょく料りょうの自じ給きゅう自じ足そく率りつを高たかめることが重じゅう要ようだ。

    Assuming a disaster, it is important to increase the self-sufficiency rate of food.

    KMT9Daily LifePolitics & LawFood & Dining
    彼かれは都と会かいの喧けん騒そうを離はなれ、田いな舎かで自じ給きゅう自じ足そくの暮くらしを始はじめた。

    He left the hustle and bustle of the city and started a self-sufficient life in the countryside.

    KMT9Daily LifeNature & Environment

    Kanji that make up this word

    自
    みずか.ら・おの.ずから・おの.ずと…(3)
    oneself
    給
    たま.う・たも.う・-たま.え…(2)
    salary・wage・gift・allow・grant…(1)
    足
    あし・た.りる・た.る・た.す…(5)
    leg・foot・be sufficient・counter for pairs of footwear
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