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余震 (よしん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

余よ震しん

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 50,000

Meanings

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noun

Refers to a smaller earthquake that follows a larger one (the mainshock). Used in news, warnings, and everyday conversation after a quake.

大おおきな地じ震しんの後あと、余よ震しんに注ちゅう意いしてください。
After a large earthquake, please be careful of aftershocks.
昨さく夜やの余よ震しんは震しん度ど3だった。
Last night's aftershock had a seismic intensity of 3.

Written forms

余よ震しんUsage95%
Standard kanji spelling; the word is almost always written this way.
よしんUsage5%

Kanji

余too much, myself, surplus
震quake, shake, tremble

Similar words

本ほん震しん
The mainshock, i.e., the largest earthquake in a sequence. 余震 are the smaller quakes that follow it.
前ぜん震しん
A foreshock, a smaller earthquake that sometimes occurs before the mainshock. Less common than 余震.

Etymology

Compound of 余 (yo, 'remaining, leftover') and 震 (shin, 'earthquake'). The reading is on'yomi.