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愛別離苦 (あいべつりく) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

愛あい別べつ離り苦く

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Meanings

1

pain of separation from loved ones

yojijukugo (four-character idiom)›Buddhism›

Buddhist term for the suffering caused by being parted from those one loves; one of the four sufferings in Buddhism.

愛あい

別べつ

離り

苦く

は

仏ぶっ

教きょう

の

四し

苦く

の

一ひと

つ

と

さ

れる

。

The pain of separation from loved ones is considered one of the four sufferings in Buddhism.

Kanji

愛love, affection, favourite
別separate, branch off, diverge
離detach, separation, disjoin
苦suffering, trial, worry
哀pathetic, grief, sorrow

Related words

四し苦く
The four sufferings in Buddhism: birth, aging, sickness, and death. 愛別離苦 is sometimes added as a fifth.

Written forms

愛あい別べつ離り苦く
Standard kanji form for this Buddhist term.
哀あい別べつ離り苦く
rarely-used kanji form
Rarely used variant with 哀 (sorrow) instead of 愛 (love).

Etymology

From the Buddhist concept of the suffering of separation from loved ones. The kanji literally mean 'love, separation, parting, suffering'.