- mikan incomplete, unfinished
Formal, literary word for unfinished works or states, common in written Japanese and set phrases like 未完の大作.
その小説は未完のまま終わった。
Sono shōsetsu wa mikan no mama owatta.
That novel ended unfinished.
彼の夢はまだ未完だ。
Kare no yume wa mada mikan da.
His dream is still incomplete.
⚖️ Not to be confused with 未完成 (mikansei), which is the everyday spoken word for incomplete; 未完 is more formal and often implies something left unfinished on purpose or by interruption.
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