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絶望

ぜつぼう

despair, hopelessness

Mnemonic

Hope cut clean through with nothing at all on the far side of it. Zet ぜつ took a bow ぼう and walked off, and he had got there about life itself: ぜつぼう.

Worth knowing

希望 きぼう is hope. 絶望 is the same idea with the thread cut.

Built from

cut off, sever
糸 a thread with a blade taken to it, cut clean through, nothing after.
hope, look afar
月 the moon down at the bottom right, and somebody a long way off looking up at it.

Words sharing these kanji

absolutely to desire, to hope hope, wish

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