First opened Saturday, February 21, 2026
無茶苦茶
むちゃくちゃ
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
confused, jumbled, mixed up, unreasonable
Taken apart
We don't have the data for this section. Wiktionary has no Etymology section for this reading, and a split made without one would be a guess.
In a sentence
彼女は泣きながら、彼からの手紙をむちゃくちゃに引き裂いて捨てた。
In tears, she tore up his letter and threw it away.
Sentences are from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), picked by fixed rules from a dated export and shown unchanged. Nobody has reviewed them one by one.
What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Ateji
- Kanji chosen for their sound or sense after the word existed.