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どんぶり勘定 (どんぶりかんじょう) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
どんぶり 勘かん 定じょう also: ドンブリかんじょう
Meanings 1
noun
rough estimate ; sloppy accounting ; slapdash bookkeeping
Refers to careless financial management or rough calculations without attention to detail. Often used in business or personal finance contexts to criticize lack of precision.
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If you make a budget with rough estimates, you'll run into trouble later.
Written forms どんぶり 勘かん 定じょう
Standard mixed kanji-kana spelling.
ドンブリ 勘かん 定じょう
Katakana variant of the first part; less common but seen.
丼どんぶり 勘かん 定じょう
Full kanji spelling; somewhat less common than the mixed form.
ドンブリかんじょう
Kanji 勘 intuition, perception, check 定 determine, fix, establish Similar words 大おお 雑ざっ 把ぱ 大雑把 means 'rough' or 'approximate' in a general sense, while どんぶり勘定 specifically refers to careless financial reckoning.
ずさん ずさん means 'sloppy' or 'careless' in a broader sense, applicable to work or planning, whereas どんぶり勘定 is limited to accounting or estimation.
Etymology From どんぶり (a bowl) and 勘定 (calculation, bill). The image is of tossing numbers into a bowl without careful counting, suggesting a rough, haphazard approach to accounting.
