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    3. 生き別れ

    生き別れ

    生いき​別わかれ​

    lifelong separation

    KMT10News #44+1NounFamily & RelationshipsKanji Vocab18 strokes

    いきわかれ

    Noun

    1.
    lifelong separation

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    彼かれらは生いき別わかれになった。

    They were separated for life.

    KMT7Family & Relationships
    戦せん争そうによって多おおくの家か族ぞくが生いき別わかれとなった。

    Many families were separated for life due to the war.

    KMT10HistoryFamily & Relationships
    生いき別わかれの悲かなしみは、時ときが経たっても癒いえることはなかった。

    The sorrow of lifelong separation did not heal even with the passage of time.

    KMT10Emotions & PsychologyFamily & Relationships
    彼かれは生いき別わかれになった兄きょう弟だいを何なん十じゅう年ねんも探さがし続つづけた。

    He continued to search for his lifelong separated sibling for decades.

    KMT10Family & Relationships
    その小しょう説せつは、生いき別わかれの親おや子こが再さい会かいする感かん動どう的てきな物ものが語たりだ。

    That novel is a moving story about a parent and child, separated for life, reuniting.

    KMT10LiteratureFamily & Relationships

    Characters that make up this word

    生
    い.きる・い.かす・い.ける・う.まれる・うま.れる・う.まれ…(39)
    life・genuine・birth
    Kanji
    別
    わか.れる・わ.ける…(2)
    separate・branch off・diverge・fork・another…(2)
    Kanji
    き
    ki
    Kana
    れ
    re
    Kana
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