ろくな

ろくな · rokuna · JLPT N1 · na-adj

decent

碌 (ろく) + な = decent; usually used as ろくな…ない: nothing decent

The kanji 碌 carries the 'decent' sense, as in 碌でもない (worthless). Learn it mostly in the negative: ろくな…ない means 'nothing decent' or 'nothing good'.

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