Word Meaning 不意

ふい fui

不意 is read as ふい (fui) and means sudden.

Meaning

English

  1. sudden
  2. abrupt
  3. unexpected
  4. unforeseen

Reading

Kana

ふい

Romaji

fui

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 17 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N4 Jōyō Grade 4 Kanken 7級 Rank 6584 Priority B

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

不本意

ふほんい

reluctant

不注意

ふちゅうい

carelessness

不用意

ふようい

unprepared

不同意

ふどうい

disagreement

不得意

ふとくい

one's weak point

不誠意

ふせいい

insincerity

不意に

ふいに

suddenly

不意打ち

ふいうち

surprise attack

不随意運動

ふずいいうんどう

involuntary movement

意味不明

いみふめい

of uncertain meaning

注意力不足活動過多症

ちゅういりょくふそくかつどうかたしょう

attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder

不十分

ふじゅうぶん

insufficient

Example Sentences

10

I was thrown off guard.

The weather changed abruptly.

I was caught off guard.

All of a sudden, all the lights went out.

Our army took the kingdom by surprise.

I suddenly missed my watch.

I suddenly heard a voice that sounded like it was sulking.

I was on the point of giving up when I suddenly hit upon the solution.

Tom was undoubtedly the most intelligent student in the entire school, but whenever the teacher asked him a question for which he was not prepared, he was filled with such nervousness that he would become confused, and something utterly incomprehensible would issue from his mouth as soon as he opened it.

It's so easy to write good example sentences, that even if we accidentally delete a few good sentences in the process of getting rid of a whole lot of bad ones, I think we could drastically improve the quality of this corpus by doing a lot of deleting.