- 不安 — anxiety / unease
- 不便 — inconvenience
- 不満 — dissatisfaction
- 不可能 — impossible
- 不思議 — mysterious / strange
Derived from a shape originally related to plants or buds, 不 came to represent negation or contradiction. It’s one of the most frequently used prefixes to reverse or negate the meaning of a word in both classical and modern Japanese.
