Illustration: In a contemporary Japanese home, a child kneels beside an impossible hourglass on a low table. Sand falls through its narrow waist, but a visible stream curls back upward outside the glass and feeds the upper chamber continuously. Neither chamber can finish emptying or filling.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

永えい遠えん

eien

eternity, forever

Example sentences

  1. その画家がかは、いわば永遠えいえんの少年しょうねんだ。

    The artist is eternally a boy.

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  2. 永遠えいえんに続つづくかと思おもったよ。

    It felt like forever.

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  3. 永遠えいえんの愛あいなんてあるわけないじゃん。

    Eternal love doesn’t exist.

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Kanji in 永遠

  • 永eternity; longOnエイKunながい
  • 遠distant; farOnエン・オンKunとおい

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