生憎

Japanese

Kanji in this term
生 憎
Grade: 1 Grade: S
Alternative spelling
生憎 (kyūjitai)

Alternative forms

Adjective

生憎(あいにく) • (ainiku) -na (adnominal 生憎(あいにく)な (ainiku na), adverbial 生憎(あいにく)に (ainiku ni))

  1. unfortunate, unfortunately
  2. I'm sorry to say that...

Inflection

Noun

生憎(あいにく) • (ainiku) 

  1. unluckiness, bad timing
    あいにくの雨(あめ)で試合(しあい)は中止(ちゅうし)になった。
    Ainiku no ame de shiai wa chūshi ni natta.
    The game was called off due to the ill-timed rain.

See also

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