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{
  "card_id": "daily_2026_08_09",
  "date": "2026-08-09",
  "status": "published",
  "language": "ja",
  "level_label": "N4",
  "theme": "daily-life",
  "tags": [
    "adjectival-noun",
    "daily-life"
  ],
  "word": {
    "surface": "不便",
    "reading": "ふべん",
    "meaning": "inconvenient"
  },
  "example": {
    "japanese": "駅が遠くて不便です。",
    "reading": "えきがとおくてふべんです。",
    "english": "The station is far, so it is inconvenient.",
    "ruby": [
      {
        "text": "駅",
        "reading": "えき"
      },
      {
        "text": "が"
      },
      {
        "text": "遠",
        "reading": "とお"
      },
      {
        "text": "くて"
      },
      {
        "text": "不便",
        "reading": "ふべん"
      },
      {
        "text": "です。"
      }
    ],
    "html": "<ruby>駅<rt>えき</rt></ruby>が<ruby>遠<rt>とお</rt></ruby>くて<ruby>不便<rt>ふべん</rt></ruby>です。"
  },
  "teaching_note": "不便 means “inconvenient.” It is the opposite of 便利.",
  "review_prompt": {
    "prompt": "What is the opposite of 便利?",
    "answer": "不便"
  },
  "urls": {
    "self": "https://koto.bokura.ai/api/v0/daily-word?date=2026-08-09",
    "api": "https://koto.bokura.ai/api/v0/daily-word",
    "site": "https://koto.bokura.ai/"
  }
}