Illustration: In a compact Japanese apartment kitchen, a resident tries to open a lower cupboard to retrieve a saucepan, but its door strikes the side of a newly positioned refrigerator after moving only a few centimeters. The saucepan remains clearly visible through the narrow gap and impossible to remove.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

不ふ都つ合ごう

futsugou

inconvenient, troublesome

Example sentences

  1. 不都合ふつごうなことがあればすぐお申もうし出でください。

    Please let us know whatever inconveniences you.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. 古ふるい家屋かおくは、特とくに日本にっぽんの伝統的でんとうてきな家屋かおくは、湿気しっけが多おおく現代生活げんだいせいかつに不都合ふつごうな事ことがある。

    Old homes, especially traditional Japanese ones, can be damp and unfriendly to modern life.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. しかし、この分類ぶんるいでは不都合ふつごうなことも生しょうじてきており、近年里神楽きんねんさとかぐらの分類方法ぶんるいほうほうの見直みなおしも考かんがえられている。

    Recently, however, the above way of sorting has became occasionally inconvenient and its review is now under consideration.

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

Kanji in 不都合

  • 不negative; non-Onフ・ブ
  • 都metropolis; capitalOnト・ツKunみやこ
  • 合fit; suitOnゴウ・ガッ・カッKunあう・あい・あい-

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