Kanji1 / 4
不 kanji
negative, non-, bad, ugly, clumsy
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
フブ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 不
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —政情不安the instability of a political situation; political instability
- —成績不振poor (academic) performance; poor (business) results (showing)
- —姓名不詳unidentified; name unknown
- —善悪不二good and evil are but two faces of the same coin
- —千古不磨permanence; immortality; eternity
- —尊大不遜arrogant and presumptuous; haughty arrogance; intolerable insolence
- —天候不順unseasonable weather; fickle weather; bad weather
- —人間不在being devoid of consideration for human beings
- —人間不信distrust of (other) human beings
- —万夫不当being a match for thousands; being a mighty warrior (combatant)
- —必勝不敗certain victory; sure victory; invincibility
- —百折不撓indefatigability; indomitableness
- —不安材料cause for concern; reasons for uneasiness
- —不易流行the principle of fluidity and immutability in haiku; haiku is both fluid and transitory, and eternal and immutable; an interchange between the transient and the immutable is central to the soul of haiku
- —不可能事an impossibility
- —不羈独立free and independent
- —不義密通adultery; infidelity
- —不遇時代one's dark days; the period during which one suffered misfortune and obscurity
- —不屈不撓indefatigability; indomitableness; with unremitting tenacity
- —不純分子dissident element (e.g. in a political party); discontented element