Illustration: Just after rain on a quiet Japanese shopping street, a commuter walks beneath the edge of a shop awning. At that exact moment, a pooled pocket of rainwater spills from the fabric directly onto their head. Their umbrella is already folded because the sky has cleared.

JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

不ふ運うん

fuun

unlucky, ill-fated

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは身みの不運ふうんを嘆なげき悲かなしんだ。

    He wept over his misfortunes.

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  2. 彼かれは気きの毒どくな程ほど不運ふうんだ。

    He’s unlucky to a pitiful extent.

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  3. 彼かれはなんて不運ふうんなのだろう。

    How unlucky he is.

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Kanji in 不運

  • 不negative; non-Onフ・ブ
  • 運carry; luckOnウンKunはこぶ

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