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哀れ Ah Wah Rey Japanese Compassionate Grief Pathos Commonly Phrase

Front 哀れ (ah-wah-rey, Japanese)
Back compassionate grief; pathos

Commonly used in the phrase 物の哀 (moh-no no ah-wah-rey), translated as "the empathy of things", and means an awareness of the transience of all things with a deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life.

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