The kanji 不: meaning, readings and stroke order
不
- Meaning
- not, un-
- On reading
- フ fu、ブ bu
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 一 one
- Level
- Level 4 · grade 4
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- không (bất)
- Japanese
- そうで ない。うちけしの ことば。
- Korean
- 아니다, 안 (부·불)
- Chinese
- 不
Readings, words and example sentences
フ fu · on reading
不安
worried, uneasy
はじめての 場所で 不安に なりました。
I felt uneasy in a place I had never been to.
ブ bu · on reading · less common
不気味
creepy, spooky
暗くて 不気味な 道です。
It is a dark, spooky road.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.