生憎

Japanese

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

Alternative forms

Adjective

生憎(あいにく) (ainiku) -na (adnominal 生憎(あいにく) (ainiku na), adverbial 生憎(あいにく) (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(あめ)試合(しあい)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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