Kanji1 / 14
駄 kanji
burdensome, pack horse, horse load, send by horse, trivial, worthless
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
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Kun readings
NoneWords with 駄
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —駄目駄目entirely useless; completely worthless; no no; don't!
- —駄目詰めfilling neutral points; filling dame points
- —無駄吠えbarking over nothing (of a dog); barking at passers-by or visitors
- —駄目になるto spoil; to break; to go bad; to go wrong; to fail
- —無駄にするto render futile; to bring to naught; to waste; to not make good use of
- —無駄骨折りlaboring in vain; wasted effort; vain efforts
- —駄目を押すto make sure; to make doubly sure
- —無駄を省くto eliminate waste
- —駄目で元々giving something a try because it will not do any harm
- —地団駄踏むto stamp one's feet (in frustration, impatience, etc.)
- —時間の無駄waste of time
- —無駄になるto come to nothing; to be in vain; to lead nowhere
- —無駄飯食いne'er-do-well; waster; idler; good-for-nothing
- —無駄のないeconomical; efficient; lean; compact
- —韋駄天走りrunning extremely fast
- —地団駄を踏むto stamp one's feet (in frustration, impatience, etc.)
- —駄々をこねるto be unreasonable; to whine; to throw a tantrum
- —無駄にしないmake good use of; make the most of
- —無駄骨を折るto waste one's efforts; to work to no (useful) effect
- —言うだけ無駄would be a waste of words; would be a waste of breath; there's no point in saying