ややこしい
N1 yayakoshii
- puzzling
- tangled
- complicated
- complex
い-adjective
Chinese meanings
复杂;麻烦
Examples
- あの5人の関係は、ややこしい。The relationships among those five people are complicated.那五个人的关系很复杂。
- やっとややこしい迷路の外に出られた。I finally found my way out of the confusing maze.终于走出了复杂的迷宫。
Use this entry in code
import { getVocabById } from 'kotowa';
getVocabById('7e3f27dbb0'); // ややこしい
{
"id": "7e3f27dbb0",
"word": "ややこしい",
"reading": "ややこしい",
"romaji": "yayakoshii",
"meanings": [
"puzzling",
"tangled",
"complicated",
"complex"
],
"level": "N1",
"pos": [
"adj-i"
],
"jmdict_id": 1012870,
"examples": [
{
"ja": "あの5人の関係は、ややこしい。",
"en": "The relationships among those five people are complicated.",
"tatoeba_id": 231377
},
{
"ja": "やっとややこしい迷路の外に出られた。",
"furigana": "やっとややこしい{迷路|めいろ}の{外|そと}に{出|で}られた。",
"en": "I finally found my way out of the confusing maze.",
"tatoeba_id": 193077
}
],
"zh": {
"status": "reviewed",
"source_hash": "d856f03639cc5ac5672a9c1e18d6b5453692f439c2478b0601cfa013363fb52e",
"meanings": [
"复杂",
"麻烦"
],
"examples": [
{
"ja": "あの5人の関係は、ややこしい。",
"zh": "那五个人的关系很复杂。"
},
{
"ja": "やっとややこしい迷路の外に出られた。",
"zh": "终于走出了复杂的迷宫。"
}
],
"references": [
"upstream vocab/n1/7e3f27dbb0",
"JMdict ent_seq 1012870; checked against downloaded JMdict_e.gz on 2026-10-28",
"Original Chinese authored and reviewed by Codex; no independent human review"
],
"reviewer": "Codex",
"review_method": "ai",
"reviewed_at": "2026-10-28",
"review_hash": "a06a72e430455cac19aabd8f1aab77b1d15e438f8a6cc05c182b7e34552d67aa"
}
}