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Bungling Fingers 拙 セツ つたな.い Clumsy Unskillful 拙い(つたない

Kanji
Onyomi セツ
Kunyomi つたな.い
English bungling, clumsy, unskillful
Examples 拙い(つたない): (1) poor-quality; shoddy; crude (2) unskillful; inexpert; maladroit; inept; foolish; clumsy (3) unlucky
JLPT Level 1
Jouyou Grade S
Frequency 1938
Components 手: hand
出: exit; leave; go out; come out; put out; protrude
Number of Strokes 8
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 64
Radical Strokes 4
Radical Reading て・てへん
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 形声 Phonetic
Keyword bungling
Koohii Story 1 With fingers fumbling around trying to get the key in the door so he could exit, the bungling husband woke his wife as he tried to leave for a rendezvous with his mistress.
Koohii Story 2 Horror movie cliche 769: Bungling victim´s fingers fumble & bungle trying to open the exit door.
RTK Index (new) 831

Tags: jlpt.n1, grades, kanjifreq1501-2000

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