Illustration: At a home kitchen table, a child proudly presents a tray of handmade dumplings to a parent. The dumplings sit together in a clear row, but one is enormous, two are tiny, another leans sideways, and their pleated edges vary wildly.

JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

不ふ揃ぞろい

fuzoroi

uneven, mismatched

Example sentences

  1. そのためどれほど鬱陶うっとうしくても、髪かみが伸のびて不揃ふぞろいになっても、切きらずに髪かみの先さきだけを削そいでいた。

    For that reason, no matter how bothersome it became or how long and uneven their hair grew, they did not cut it; they only trimmed the ends.

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  2. 手作てづくりのクッキーは形かたちが不揃ふぞろいだ。

    The homemade cookies are uneven in shape.

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  3. 色いろが不揃ふぞろいな椅子いすを並ならべた。

    I lined up chairs that didn’t match in color.

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Kanji in 不揃

  • 不negative; non-Onフ・ブ
  • 揃be complete; uniformOnセンKunそろえる・そろう・そろい

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