Illustration: Outside a ward-office conference room, two neighborhood representatives and a municipal planner sit around a small staff break-room table. Their jackets hang over chair backs, and they discuss a rough cardboard model between cups of tea.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

非ひ公こう式しき

hikoushiki

unofficial, informal

Example sentences

  1. 翻訳ほんやくが非公式ひこうしきなものである

    the translation is unofficial

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. 議長ぎちょうは自みずからの見解けんかいを非公式ひこうしきに述のべるだけだろう。

    The chairman would only make her comments off the record.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. いったん非公式ひこうしきに合意ごういに達たっしたからには、相手あいてと契約けいやくを始はじめるべきだ。

    Once you have reached informal agreement, you should enter into a contract with the other party.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 非公式

  • 非un-; mistakeOnヒKunあらず
  • 公public; princeOnコウ・クKunおおやけ
  • 式style; ceremonyOnシキ

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