- futoku lack of virtue, immorality, vice, depravity, unworthiness
Used in formal or literary contexts to refer to moral failing or unworthiness, often in self-critical statements about one's own actions.
彼の不徳が原因で会社は倒産した。
Kare no futoku ga gen'in de kaisha wa tōsan shita.
The company went bankrupt because of his immorality.
私の不徳の致すところです。
Watashi no futoku no itasu tokoro desu.
It is due to my own lack of virtue.
⚖️ Often confused with 'futoku' meaning 'immorality' and 'fusei' meaning 'injustice' or 'unfairness'; 'futoku' focuses on personal character, while 'fusei' focuses on acts or systems.
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