Illustration: At the entrance of an Edo-period home, a traveler is about to set off with a small cloth bundle when the thong of one straw sandal suddenly snaps.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

不ふ吉きつ

fukitsu

unlucky, ominous

Example sentences

１３日にちの金曜日きんようびは不吉ふきつな日ひだと言いわれている。
It is said that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day.
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１３は不吉ふきつな数かずであるという人ひとがいる。
Some people say thirteen is an unlucky number.
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彼かれは１３が不吉ふきつな数かずだという迷信めいしんを信しんじている。
He believes in the superstition that 13 is an unlucky number.
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Kanji in 不吉

不negative; non-Onフ・ブ
吉good luck; joyOnキチ・キツKunよし

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