futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness

Word usually written using kana alone; Adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi); Common noun

no good; not serving its purpose; useless; broken

Word usually written using kana alone; Adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi); Common noun

hopeless; wasted; in vain; purposeless

Word usually written using kana alone; Adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi); Common noun

cannot; must not; not allowed

Common noun; Go (game)

neutral point; intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game

Word usually written using kana alone; Interjection

no!; stop!

to render futile; to bring to naught; to waste; to not make good use of

to come to nothing; to be in vain; to lead nowhere

waste of time

waste (of money, time, etc.); squandering; frittering away

Idiomatic expression

to be unreasonable; to whine; to throw a tantrum

shoe rack (at an entrance); shoe cupboard; shoe cubby

to spoil; to break; to go bad; to go wrong; to fail

geta; traditional Japanese wooden sandal

Printing; Printed as 〓, resembling the teeth of a geta

turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character

Go (game); Esp. ゲタ

net; geta