Word Meaning 不気味

ぶきみ bukimi

不気味 is read as ぶきみ (bukimi) and means weird.

Meaning

English

  1. weird
  2. eerie
  3. ominous
  4. creepy
  5. uncanny
  6. unearthly

Reading

Kana

ぶきみ

Romaji

bukimi

Writing Variants

  • 無気味 ぶきみ bukimi

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 18 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N4 Jōyō Grade 4 Kanken 7級 Rank 5057 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

不気味の谷

ぶきみのたに

uncanny valley (hypothesis about humanoid robots)

不味

ふみ

distaste

不味い

まずい

ugly

不人気

ふにんき

unpopular

不味る

まずる

to bungle

気味

きび

sensation

小気味

こきび

sentiment

気味

ぎみ

-like

やけ気味

やけぎみ

reek of desperation

気味

きあじ

market sentiment (stock market)

いい気味

いいきび

it serves you (him) right

食い気味

くいぎみ

interrupting (someone speaking)

Example Sentences

7

I thought that that was really weird.

The recent frequency of earthquakes makes us nervous.

Don't burst out laughing like that. It's creepy.

I had a bad feeling about it, it was creepy. A bit scary, too.

One image comes to mind: an eerie, pitch-black disk.

The scattered use of sound effects resembling wailing and groaning creates an eerie, uncomfortable sensation.

A creepy cry that sounds like a human voice, velvet black wings, the image of tearing into dead flesh; crows are known across the world as an ill-omened bird that flies down with ill-luck.