Illustration: In a small Japanese office, a copier has stopped halfway through feeding a blank sheet, which hangs crumpled from the output slot. More buckled sheets lie in the tray, though the paper drawer is full and the power indicator is lit.

JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

不ふ調ちょう

fuchou

in poor condition, out of form

Example sentences

  1. 商売しょうばいは先月せんげつちょっと不調ふちょうだった。

    Business was a little slow last month.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. いわゆる「六月病ろくがつびょう」とは、日本にっぽんでは 4月初旬がつしょじゅんに多おおくの人ひとが新あたらしい仕事しごとや学校がっこうを始はじめることから、その 2か月間げつかんにわたり疲労ひろうが蓄積ちくせきされることで生しょうじる心身しんしんの不調ふちょうです。

    The so-called “June syndrome” refers to mental and physical distress due to accumulating fatigue over the two months since the beginning of April, when many people start new jobs or schools in Japan.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 当時大坂生とうじおおさかうまれの左團次さだんじは江戸えどの客層きゃくそうと合あわず長ながい不調ふちょうにあった。

    At that time, Osaka-born Sadanji had not hit it off with the Edo-born audience and had been in a slump for a long time.

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

Kanji in 不調

  • 不negative; non-Onフ・ブ
  • 調tune; toneOnチョウKunしらべる・しらべ・ととのう

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