Word Meaning 無頓着

むとんじゃく mutonjaku

無頓着 is read as むとんじゃく (mutonjaku) and means indifferent.

Meaning

English

  1. indifferent
  2. unconcerned
  3. nonchalant
  4. unmindful
  5. inattentive
  6. careless

Reading

Kana

むとんじゃく

Romaji

mutonjaku

Writing Variants

  • 無頓着 むとんちゃく mutonchaku

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 37 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

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Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

無着陸飛行

むちゃくりくひこう

nonstop flight

無着色

むちゃくしょく

free of artificial colors

無着陸

むちゃくりく

nonstop

頓着

とんじゃく

being concerned about or mindful of

頓着ない

とんじゃくない

indifferent

無人

ぶにん

shorthandedness

無理

むり

impossible

無駄

むだ

futility

無茶

むちゃ

rash

無料

むりょう

free (of charge)

無事

ぶじ

good health

Example Sentences

5

かのじょはみなりにむとんちゃくだ。

She is indifferent to her appearance.

John is very careless about his clothes.

As is often the case with young men, he does not pay much attention to his health.

As is often the case with young people, he was indifferent to money.

Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge harshly the circumstances of the young persons born of the next generation. He felt that there was truly an irreconcilable gap between the old and the young.