I Love Kanji雑 (zatsu)
雑 (ざつ, zatsu) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “rough; crude”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- ざつ
- Romaji
- zatsu
- Word class
- な-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N1 (unofficial)
Meaning
- rough; crude; sloppy; messy · な-adjective
- miscellaneous · prefix noun, noun taking の, noun
Example sentences
お客が雑な作りのスタンドに座って靴を磨いてもらっている。
A customer is having his shoes shined on a slapped-together stand.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 雑
な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present (plain) | 雑だ | ざつだ zatsuda |
| Present (polite) | 雑です | ざつです zatsudesu |
| Negative | 雑じゃない | ざつじゃない zatsujanai |
| Past | 雑だった | ざつだった zatsudatta |
| Negative past | 雑じゃなかった | ざつじゃなかった zatsujanakatta |
| Te-form | 雑で | ざつで zatsude |
| Before a noun | 雑な | ざつな zatsuna |
| Adverb (~ni) | 雑に | ざつに zatsuni |
Kanji in 雑
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 雑.
雑誌ざっしmagazine複雑ふくざつcomplex混雑こんざつcongestion雑音ざつおんnoise (usu. unpleasant)雑巾ぞうきんhouse-cloth雑貨ざっかmiscellaneous goods雑談ざつだんchatting雑木ぞうきvarious kinds of small trees
Source: JMdict entry 1299240 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.