Vocabulary

What does 忘却 (ぼうきゃく) mean?

忘却 (ぼうきゃく) means oblivion, forgetting.

Quick facts
Readingぼうきゃく
Part of speechnoun, suru verb, transitive
Level (estimated, JLPT framework)N1
ぼうきゃく
N1 · estimated, JLPT frameworkCommon

oblivion, forgetting

  1. 1noun · suru verb · transitive lapse of memory; forgetting completely; (consigning to) oblivion

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Entries, readings and English glosses: JMdict — Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group (EDRDG), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and their translations written by GoMe.

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