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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
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His accounting is slapdash, and he's always in the red.
If you make a budget with rough estimates, you'll run into trouble later.
Kanji 勘 intuition, perception, check 定 determine, fix, establish Related 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.
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
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.
