不ふ手て際ぎわ

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Meanings

clumsiness; awkwardness; ineptitude

Refers to a lack of skill or poor handling of a task, often implying a mistake or failure due to incompetence. Used for both personal and organizational shortcomings.

彼かれの不ふ手て際ぎわで会かい議ぎが混こん乱らんした。
The meeting was thrown into confusion due to his clumsiness.
このミスは私わたしの不ふ手て際ぎわです。
This mistake is due to my ineptitude.

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Kanji

不negative, non-, bad
手hand
際occasion, side, edge

Related words

不ふ始し末まつN1
不手際 focuses on a clumsy or inept handling of a task, implying a lack of skill, while 不始末 emphasizes negligence, omission, or moral failure.
失しっ態たい
不手際 refers to clumsy or poor handling of a task, while 失態 stresses the resulting disgrace rather than the clumsiness itself.
手て違ちがいN1
不手際 emphasizes clumsy or poor handling that causes trouble, while 手違い focuses on a mix-up or miscommunication in a procedure.

Built from

不ふ+手て際ぎわ

Etymology

Compound of 不 (fu, 'not') + 手際 (tegiwa, 'skill, handling'). The word 手際 originally referred to the way one handles things with one's hands, and the prefix 不 negates it, yielding 'lack of skill'.