Hakyoku

破局 (Hakyoku) is a Japanese noun meaning “catastrophe, cataclysm, collapse (of a relationship), breakup”.

Meanings

  1. nouncatastrophe; cataclysm
  2. noun, suru verb, intransitive verbcollapse (of a relationship); breakup; split (friends, lovers, etc.)

Examples

  • Even disaster is better than such a divorce between emotion and action.

Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).

Kanji in 破局

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