Illustration: Behind the counter of a small neighborhood restaurant, a hurried worker shoves a rack of clean bowls onto a shelf with one abrupt, heavy movement. The bowls knock together and one tips precariously over the rack's edge.

JLPT N2i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

荒あらい

arai

rough, harsh

Used for behavior or manner. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

僕ぼくのボスは人使ひとづかいが荒あらいんだ。
My boss is a slave driver.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
彼かれは運転うんてんが荒あらい。
He drives roughly.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
彼女かのじょは言葉使ことばづかいが荒あらい。
She is rough in speech.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 荒

荒laid waste; roughOnコウKunあらす・あれる・あらい

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences

Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store

For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store