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儚い (はかない) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N1 › Freq. Frequency Top 20,000 Conjugation 儚い · i-adjective
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 儚はかな い 儚はかな くない Polite 儚はかな いです 儚はかな くないです also 儚はかな くありません Past polite 儚はかな かったです 儚はかな くなかったです also 儚はかな くありませんでした Past 儚はかな かった 儚はかな くなかった Te-form 儚はかな くて 儚はかな くなくて Adverbial 儚はかな く Conditional 儚はかな ければ 儚はかな くなければ Tara conditional 儚はかな かったら 儚はかな くなかったら
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Cherry blossoms scatter fleetingly.
Usage patterns 儚はかな い 命いのち a fleeting life
I want to live my fleeting life to the fullest.
儚はかな い 望のぞ みを 抱いだ く to hold onto a faint/vain hope
He was still clinging to a faint hope.
儚はかな い 夢ゆめ a fleeting/short-lived dream
I still remember the fleeting dream I had when I was young.
儚はかな く 散ち る to fall/scatter fleetingly (esp. of flowers)
The cherry blossoms scattered fleetingly.
儚はかな い 恋こい a fleeting, short-lived love
Their fleeting love came to an end quickly.
Kanji 果 fruit, reward, carry out 無 nothingness, none, ain't Related words 虚しい emphasizes emptiness or futility with a focus on lack of meaning, while 儚い stresses the fleeting, fragile nature of something.
切ない describes a painful, wistful feeling, whereas 儚い describes something (like a life, dream, or love) that is itself transient.
Don't confuse with 淡い describes something faint or light in intensity, like color or taste, while 儚い describes something transient or fleeting in existence.
儚い emphasizes fleetingness or transience (like a dream or a short life), while 脆い emphasizes physical or structural fragility, though both can describe delicate things.
Written forms 儚はかな い Usage 23%
Standard kanji form; the character 儚 carries the core meaning of transience.
はかない Usage 75%
Common kana spelling; usually written in kana.
果は 敢か ない Usage 2%
search-only kanji form
Search-only kanji form.
果敢無はかな い
Etymology Derived from the verb はかなく (hakanaku), the adverbial form of classical はかなし (hakanashi). The kanji 儚 is a kokuji (Japanese-created character) combining 人 (person) and 夢 (dream), visually suggesting the fleeting nature of human dreams.
脆い means physically or emotionally fragile and easily broken, while 儚い carries a poetic sense of something passing away quickly.
rarely-used kanji form
果無はかな い
rarely-used kanji form
Rarely used kanji form.
