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
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Kun readings
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LevelWord & meaningActions
- —不正直者dishonest person
- —不祥事件scandal; disgraceful incident; scandalous affair; untoward event
- —不審人物suspicious character (person, figure)
- —不正流用misappropriation (of funds, etc.)
- —不定愁訴general malaise; unidentified complaint; all-round poor physical condition
- —不適任者unqualified (incompetent) person; square peg in a round hole
- —不平分子discontented element; discontented (grumbling) member
- —不要不急nonessential and nonurgent; unnecessary
- —不良外人delinquent foreigner; foreign hoodlum
- —不良交友getting mixed up with the wrong people; getting into bad company
- —不良仲間gang of hoodlums (hooligans); bad company; companion in gang activities
- —不良老年old sinner; elderly man-about-town; older person who enjoys free and easy lifestyle unfettered by social taboos
- —不倫相手person with whom one is having an illicit love affair; mistress; lover
- —身元不明(a person or body being) unidentifiable (unidentified)
- —唯一不二one and only; unique
- —連綿不断long and uninterrupted (unbroken)
- —論旨不明the point of an argument being unclear; the tenor of an argument being poorly reasoned
- —不逞の輩lawless people; gang; malcontents; recalcitrants
- —核不拡散nuclear nonproliferation
- —経営不振business slump; slowdown in business activity