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Meaning
hopeless, fleeting, transient, fickle
Unrequited (hopeless) love
Unrequited (hopeless) love
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はかmeans the results gained from your efforts. はかない therefore means that no results were gained despite your efforts.
bamboo4
isn't it strange how 儚い looks very similar to 夢 hehe (Allusion to ラブひな)
KotatsuSama
Wait, isn't "unrequited love" 迚??昴＞?
Ayumi
Sorry if you can't read that. It should say "kataomoi".
Ayumi
bamboo4: Are you sure about はか meaning "the results gained from your efforts"? I searched wwwjdic for it, and couldn't find anything. Plus, if 儚い
Xepo
Grr, sorry, hit enter too early. If 儚い is the はかない that this article is speaking of, then how would you write はか？
Xepo
my japanese isnt very good but isnt there another meaning to hakanai... like shooting star or soemthing?
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Another definition for hakanai「儚い」is 'fleeting; transient; short-lived;'...
added an example with that usage.
added an example with that usage.
EvilKyra
片思い Is unrequited love isnt it?
shiho-chan
はかない恋
a passing love (short-lived love)
はかない人生
A life in vain
宝くじに庶民ははかない望みをかける
People hope in vain they'll win the lottery.
a passing love (short-lived love)
はかない人生
A life in vain
宝くじに庶民ははかない望みをかける
People hope in vain they'll win the lottery.
slopethisway
儚いお花の美しさ
The transient beauty of flowers
shouldn't this be お花の儚い美しさ？
The transient beauty of flowers
shouldn't this be お花の儚い美しさ？
leanne.nz
Surely this is just vocabulary not grammar?
epeen
What bamboo4 says is correct. This can also be written as 果無い, although the aforementioned kanji is more common. so to answer xepos question, it's 果
vizoso