noun, na-adjective
sloppiness; carelessness; oversight
Archaic noun/adjectival noun. In modern Japanese, this word is almost never used independently; it survives only in the negative expression 如才ない (じょさいない), meaning 'shrewd', 'sharp', or 'not careless'. The standalone form is obsolete.
See also: 如才ない
The word 如才 is used only in the form 如才ない in modern Japanese.
古い文献では、「如才」が単独で不注意や手落ちを意味することがある。
In old texts, 如才 can sometimes mean carelessness or oversight on its own.
Archaic kanji spelling; the word is now almost exclusively used in the negative form 如才ない.
Variant kanji spelling; rare and archaic.
The exact derivation is uncertain. The kanji 如 (like, as if) and 才 (talent, ability) may have been used phonetically or semantically, but the word is now fossilized in the negative form 如才ない.