断舍离

Traditional form:

斷捨離

Pinyin (reading):

duànshělí

Definitions:

• (neologism c. 2012) decluttering; minimalism (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 断捨離 "danshari", lit. "forgoing, discarding and letting go")

Characters:

• 断 - to sever, to cut off, to interrupt
• 舍 - house, dwelling; to reside, to dwell; to abandon, to give up
• 离 - rare beast; strange; elegant

Traditional characters:

• 斷 - to sever, to cut off, to interrupt
• 捨 - house, dwelling; to reside, to dwell; to abandon, to give up
• 離 - rare beast; strange; elegant