First opened Monday, May 1, 2006
面倒臭い
めんどうくさい
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bother to do, tiresome
Mendōkusai is 面倒 (“inconvenience”) plus 臭い (“reeks of”).
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In a sentence
そこまで歩いて行くのはめんどうくさい。
It's too much trouble to walk there.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “面倒 (“inconvenience”) + 臭い (“reeks of”)”
Source: Wiktionary: 面倒臭い (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 混種語 Hybrid
- Words that mix layers, e.g. a native part with a Chinese one.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Rendaku
- The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).