腑に落ちない

• 読み: ふにおちない
• ローマ字: funi ochinai
• 漢字の分解: 腑 (fu) — internal organs, viscera; 落 (ochi) — fall, drop; ない (nai) — negation
• 発音: /ɸɯ.ni.o.tɕi.na.i/

意味

Unconvincing; not making sense; hard to accept. Describes a feeling of dissatisfaction when an explanation fails to satisfy or logically hold up.

A fixed idiomatic expression. 腑 refers to the viscera (internal organs), and the metaphor is of something failing to 'drop into' one's gut and settle there. Used when one is intellectually or emotionally unable to accept an explanation, decision, or situation. Often carries a nuance of frustration or suspicion that something is being withheld.

例文

1. 会社の突然の方針変更については、腑に落ちない点がいくつかある。
2. 彼の言い訳はどこか腑に落ちなくて、もやもやした気持ちが残った。
3. 説明を受けたが腑に落ちないまま、渋々承諾するしかなかった。

使い方ガイド

場面: everyday conversation, internal monologue, complaint, workplace

トーン: frustrated

起源と歴史

From 腑 (viscera, internal organs) + 落ちる (to fall, to settle) in the negative. The image of something failing to settle comfortably in the stomach is a somatic metaphor for intellectual or emotional unease.

文化的背景

時代: Classical–Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal