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不運 (ふうん): unlucky, misfortune, bad luck — Japanese vocabulary

不運 is read ふうん and means "unlucky, misfortune, bad luck". JLPT N2 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

不運

Reading
ふうん · fuun
Translation
unlucky, misfortune, bad luck
Level
JLPT N2
Pitch accent
ふうんが

Example

彼は失敗を不運のせいにした。

かれはしっぱいをふうんのせいにした。

He attributed his failure to bad luck.

Kanji in this word

  • 不 — not
  • 運 — carry, luck

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