JLPT N1 · な-adjective

不明 (fumei)

不明 (ふめい, fumei) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “unclear; obscure”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
ふめい
Romaji
fumei
Word class
な-adjective
Level
JLPT N1 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. unclear; obscure; indistinct; uncertain; ambiguous · な-adjective, noun
  2. unknown; unidentified · noun taking の, suffix
  3. ignorance; lack of wisdom; lack of insight · noun

Example sentences

良い新聞記者は、どんなニュース源からも、つまり、出所不明型のニュース源からも、学びとれるものはなんでも利用する。
A good newspaper reporter takes advantage of what he learns from any source, even the "little bird told him so" type of source.

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Conjugation of 不明

な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.

FormJapaneseReading
Present (plain)不明だふめいだ fumeida
Present (polite)不明ですふめいです fumeidesu
Negative不明じゃないふめいじゃない fumeijanai
Past不明だったふめいだった fumeidatta
Negative past不明じゃなかったふめいじゃなかった fumeijanakatta
Te-form不明でふめいで fumeide
Before a noun不明なふめいな fumeina
Adverb (~ni)不明にふめいに fumeini

Kanji in 不明

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 不明.

Source: JMdict entry 1495060 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.