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    3. 白髪三千丈

    白髪三千丈

    白はく髪はつ三さん千ぜん丈じょう

    many years of stress and anxiety (as would cause one's hair to grow white)

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    はくはつさんぜんじょう

    Expressions

    1.
    many years of stress and anxiety (as would cause one's hair to grow white), three-thousand jō of white hair (nine kilometers)
    formal or literary term

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    Kanji that make up this word

    白
    しろ・しら-・しろ.い…(5)
    white
    髪
    かみ…(3)
    hair of the head
    三
    み・み.つ・みっ.つ…(17)
    three
    千
    ち…(3)
    thousand
    丈
    たけ・だけ…(3)
    length・ten shaku・measure・Mr.・Ms.…(6)
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