放ほう浪ろう生せい活かつ

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Meanings

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noun

vagabond life; wandering existence

Refers to a lifestyle of roaming without a fixed home, often with a romantic or literary nuance.

彼かれは都と会かいを離はなれ、放ほう浪ろう生せい活かつを始はじめた。
He left the city and began a wandering life.

set free, release, fire

浪wandering, waves, billows

生life, genuine, birth

活lively, resuscitation, being helped

Similar words

放ほう浪ろう
放浪 is the act of wandering itself; 放浪生活 specifically refers to the lifestyle of wandering.
流る浪ろう
流浪 also means wandering, but often implies a more aimless or displaced drifting, while 放浪 can carry a sense of deliberate freedom.

Etymology

Compound of 放浪 (ほうろう, 'wandering') and 生活 (せいかつ, 'life, living'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word is a straightforward Sino-Japanese compound.