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第一次石油危機 (だいいちじせきゆきき) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

第だい一いち次じ石せき油ゆ危き機き

Meanings

1

first oil crisis

Refers specifically to the 1973 oil crisis triggered by the OPEC oil embargo.

第だい一いち次じ石せき油ゆ危き機きは1973年ねんに起おこった。
The first oil crisis occurred in 1973.

Kanji

第No., residence
一one, one radical (no.1)
次next, order, sequence
石stone
油

oil, fat

危dangerous, fear, uneasy

機loom, mechanism, machine

Related words

第だい二に次じ石せき油ゆ危き機き
Refers to the 1979 oil crisis, distinct from the first.

Built from

第だい一いち次じ+石せき油ゆ危き機き

Etymology

Compound of 第一次 (first) + 石油 (oil) + 危機 (crisis).