Illustration: In a Japanese neighborhood meeting room, volunteers have just assembled a folding display table. One volunteer gently tests the top and finds that a corner lifts away from its supporting frame.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

不ふ備び

fubi

deficiency, flaw

Example sentences

  1. システムの不備ふびは以前いぜんから指摘してきされていた。

    The inadequacies of the system have been pointed out for some time.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 先さきごろのサービス上じょうの不備ふびについて釈明しゃくめいしたかった。

    We wanted to explain the recent service failure.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. その結果けっか、施行しこうしてみて初はじめて分わかった矛盾むじゅん・不備ふびなども認識にんしきされるようになる。

    As a result, contradictions and flaws came to be recognized once it was in force.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 不備

  • 不negative; non-Onフ・ブ
  • 備equip; provisionOnビKunそなえる・そなわる・つぶさに

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