EntryCommon
  1. Noun

    poor crop; bad harvest; crop failure

    洪水のため米は不作だった。
    The rice crop was poor, owing to the floods.
  2. low quality (e.g. of literary works)

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

negative, non-, bad, ugly, clumsy

On
Strokes
4
Taught
Grade 4
JLPT
N4
Frequency
101 of 2500
Radical
one
WaniKani
Level 4

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
4-4-1, 3-2-2, 3-3-1SKIP code
0a4.2The Kanji Dictionary
1090.0Four corner code
3154deroo
4e0dUnicode hex code
1-41-52JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
17Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
13New Nelson (John Haig)
3434New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4242Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2141Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2890Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1217Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1302Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
134A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
94Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
130Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
19Morohashi
572A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
94Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
94Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
500sakade
104Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
600henshall3
444Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
103crowley
422Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
3.18busy_people
10Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1225Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
bu4, bu2Pinyin reading
bu, bulKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
4WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

make, production, prepare, build

Kun
つく.るつく.り-づく.り
On
サク
Strokes
7
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N4
Frequency
103 of 2500
Radical
person
WaniKani
Level 5

Built from

Used in names as

くりさかさっづくりともなおはぎまさか

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
1-2-5SKIP code
2a5.10The Kanji Dictionary
2821.1Four corner code
2154deroo
4f5cUnicode hex code
1-26-78JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
407Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
167New Nelson (John Haig)
68New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
77Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
49Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
52Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1142Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1224Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
99A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
362Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
147Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
518Morohashi
127A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
360Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
361Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
82sakade
116Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
141henshall3
144Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
120crowley
137Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
3.4busy_people
75Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1151Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
zuo1, zuo4, zuo2Pinyin reading
jag, ja, juKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
5WaniKani level