断舍离 / 斷捨離

duàn​shě​lí

decluttering

minimalism or the practice of decluttering one's life by getting rid of unnecessary possessions; a neologism borrowed from Japanese.

断 (literal) → 断/斷 · duàn · to cut off 舍 (literal) → 舍/捨 · shě · to give up 离 (literal) → 离/離 · lí · to leave

Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

created sense May 20, 2026, 07:58 PM