断だん腸ちょう

noun

heartbreak; grief; sorrow

Literary and emotionally intense; most often encountered in the phrase 断腸の思い (heart-wrenching feeling). Rarely used as a standalone noun in everyday speech.

See also: 断腸の思い

• 彼かれは断だん腸ちょうの思おもいで故こ郷きょうを離はなれた。

  He left his hometown with a heart-wrenching feeling.

• その知しらせを聞きいて、断だん腸ちょうの思おもいだった。

  Hearing the news, I felt heartbroken.