音痴 – Vocabulary details

音おん痴ち

Meanings

Adjective (の)

Noun

1. tone-deafness; amusia; having no ear for music

Adjective (な)

2. tone-deaf; off-key

Suffix

3. having no sense (of something); being hopeless (when it comes to something)

Alt. forms

Kanji used

音

sound

痴

stupid

Pitch accent

お

んち

Used in: 293

Composed of

音おん

sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading

痴ち

foolishness; fool; moha (ignorance, folly)

Used in vocabulary (5 in total)

方ほう向こう音おん痴ち

(person with) no sense of direction; poor sense of locality

運うん動どう音おん痴ち

having slow reflexes; being nonathletic; person who is not athletic

機き械かい音おん痴ち

mechanical ineptitude; being hopeless with machines

味あじ音おん痴ち

unsophisticated palate; inability to discern good and bad flavours

味み覚かく音おん痴ち

having no sense of taste

Examples (4 in total)

僕ぼく、音おん痴ちなんだ。

I'm tone-deaf.

私わたしは音おん痴ちだから歌うたいたくない。

I don't want to sing, because I'm tone-deaf.

あいつ、自じ分ぶんが音おん痴ちだってこと知しらないんだよ。

He doesn't realise that he's tone deaf.

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