I Love Kanji無難 (bunan)
無難 (ぶなん, bunan) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “safe (e.g. choice); secure”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- ぶなん
- Romaji
- bunan
- Word class
- な-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N1 (unofficial)
Meaning
- safe (e.g. choice); secure; innocuous; inoffensive · な-adjective, noun
- acceptable; passable; satisfactory; adequate; faultless · な-adjective, noun
Example sentences
男性の一部と女性の一部が計算は速いと言うほうが無難だ。
It is safer to say that some men and some women are good at figures.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 無難
な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present (plain) | 無難だ | ぶなんだ bunanda |
| Present (polite) | 無難です | ぶなんです bunandesu |
| Negative | 無難じゃない | ぶなんじゃない bunanjanai |
| Past | 無難だった | ぶなんだった bunandatta |
| Negative past | 無難じゃなかった | ぶなんじゃなかった bunanjanakatta |
| Te-form | 無難で | ぶなんで bunande |
| Before a noun | 無難な | ぶなんな bunanna |
| Adverb (~ni) | 無難に | ぶなんに bunanni |
Kanji in 無難
無
nothingness, none, ain'tム・ブ・な.い · 12 strokes難
difficult, impossible, troubleナン・かた.い・-がた.い · 18 strokesRelated words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 無難.
無くすなくすto lose (something)無理むりunreasonable無くなるなくなるto be lost (e.g. luggage)無むnothing有無うむexistence or nonexistence無視むしdisregarding無駄むだfutility無料むりょうfree (of charge)無しなしwithout無事ぶじsafety無ぶun-無限むげんinfinity無地むじplain無数むすうinnumerable
Source: JMdict entry 1530750 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.