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感無量

かんむりょう

deep feeling; being filled with emotion beyond words

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Examples

  1. 優勝が決まり、感無量です。

    ゆうしょうがきまり、かんむりょうです。

    Now that we've won the title, words fail me.

  2. 三十年ぶりの再会に、彼は感無量の面持ちだった。

    さんじゅうねんぶりのさいかいに、かれはかんむりょうのおももちだった。

    Meeting again after thirty years, he looked overcome with emotion.

  3. 娘の卒業式を見て、父は感無量だった。

    むすめのそつぎょうしきをみて、ちちはかんむりょうだった。

    Watching his daughter graduate, her father was overwhelmed.

Common patterns

感無量の面持ち
a look of deep emotion
ただただ感無量
simply overwhelmed
感無量です
I'm too moved for words

Memory tip

Literally 'feeling without measure'. It belongs to milestone moments — retirements, victories, long-awaited reunions — and is nearly always said of the speaker's own swelling feeling, so it sounds inflated for small everyday pleasures.

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