JLPT N1Proverbs
断腸の思い
- Meaning
- 腸が切れるほどの非常につらく悲しい気持ち
- Explanation
- From the legend that a mother monkey whose child was taken had her intestines torn apart from grief, it expresses a sorrow so deep that the entrails are cut through. c1 and c2, which evoke hunger or anger from the characters "腸 (intestines)" and "断 (cut)," are wrong; what it expresses is purely strong grief.
Original Japanese explanation
子を奪われた母猿が悲しみのあまり腸がちぎれていた故事から、はらわたが断ち切られるほど深く悲痛な思いを表す。「腸」「断」の字から空腹や怒りを連想させる c1・c2 は誤りで、表すのはあくまで強い悲しみです。
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