Illustration: At a family kitchen table, an adult concentrates intensely on folding a gyoza wrapper, but their fingers have stuck its opposite corners together around an escaping lump of filling. Several earlier attempts lean in irregular shapes on the tray.

JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

不ぶ器き用よう

bukiyou

clumsy, unskillful

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは手先てさきが不器用ぶきようだ。

    He is clumsy with his hands.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 不器用ぶきようなので、折おり紙がみは苦手にがてです。

    I’m all thumbs, so I’m not very good at origami.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 縫ぬい物ものということになると、彼女かのじょは全まったく不器用ぶきようだ。

    When it comes to sewing, she is all thumbs.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 不器用

  • 不negative; non-Onフ・ブ
  • 器utensil; vesselOnキKunうつわ
  • 用utilize; businessOnヨウKunもちいる

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