Illustration: On a Japanese apartment balcony, a resident has brought a laundry basket outside during a sudden patch of sunshine, only to stop as another gust drives rain beneath the eaves. Small hailstones from the previous shower remain in a planter.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

不ふ順じゅん

fujun

irregular, unsettled

Often describes weather or a bodily cycle. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 今年ことしは天候てんこう不順ふじゅんだった。

    The weather has been unusual this year.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 交易こうえきとは違ちがうが、天候てんこう不順ふじゅんにより海外かいがいへ難破なんぱした者ものも数名すうめいいた。

    Although this was unrelated to trade, several people were shipwrecked and ended up overseas because of unsettled weather.

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

  3. 食糧しょくりょうとしてアワを蒔まき付つけするも天候てんこうの不順ふじゅんやウサギ・ネズミ・鳥とりの被害ひがいに遭あい殆ほとんど収穫しゅうかくできなかった。

    They planted foxtail millet for food, but unsettled weather and damage from rabbits, rats, and birds left them with almost no harvest.

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

Kanji in 不順

  • 不negative; non-Onフ・ブ
  • 順obey; orderOnジュン

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