How to say "heartbreak" in Japanese

• 傷心しょうしんCommon
  no-adjective, suru verb, intransitive verbHeartbreak as a wounded heart: the sorrow of someone crushed by a painful blow such as a breakup, rejection or defeat. It names that bruised emotional state itself.
  彼かれは失恋しつれんのために傷心しょうしんした。↗

  He was heartbroken from unrequited love.
• 断腸だんちょうCommon
  nounA literary word whose image is the guts being severed: grief so intense it is like physical agony. For everyday heartbreak this is seldom the word you want; it suits extreme, anguished sorrow.
• 悲痛ひつうCommon
  na-adjective, no-adjectiveBitter, profound sorrow: it foregrounds the sheer depth of grief and extreme sadness rather than the state of a wounded heart after a personal blow.

All three denote deep emotional pain, but 傷心 pictures a heart wounded by a personal blow, 断腸 is a literary term for agonizing, gut-wrenching grief, and 悲痛 stresses bitter, extreme sadness.

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• 傷心しょうしんheartbreak
• 断腸だんちょうheartbreak
• 悲痛ひつうgrief
• ハートブレイクheartbreak