円周率 – Bilingual Lyrics Japanese/English

• By: 日向坂46
• Album: Kind of love

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the world of J-pop with Hinatazaka46's 'Enshū-ritsu'. This song is a fantastic way to learn Japanese vocabulary related to mathematics and emotions, while exploring how metaphors are used in modern Japanese songwriting to describe the complexities of the heart.

[English]

The sunlight streaming through the window

Reflects off the blackboard, making it hard to see

The important things aren't written there anyway

I spend all my time just gazing at you

I wonder what all these

Rows of numbers actually mean

Just like the digits of Pi never end

Truthfully, I wanted to keep going too

An eternal decimal point

The words of love I want to tell you

No matter how far, no matter how long, even through billions of digits

My feelings for you can never be divided

Is you sitting diagonally in front of me

A stroke of luck, or just my misfortune?

The more I lose focus on the lesson

The happier I seem to feel

Love is infinite

It's just a feeling of "liking" that keeps on going

22 divided by 7, the numerator over the denominator

I find myself thinking of it over and over

I can't seem to organize this affection

With the haze in my heart never clearing

This endless emotion is, for me right now,

Yes, more precious than anything else

どこまで行けば　答えが出る？

Though nobody really knows

My round, full heart

Thinks of you without ever stopping

Just like the digits of Pi never end

Truthfully, I wanted to keep going too

An eternal decimal point

The words of love I want to tell you

No matter how far, no matter how long, even through billions of digits

My feelings for you can never be divided

Something like Pi will never be enough to express it

[Japanese]

窓から差す太陽の光が

黒板に反射して見えなくなる

大切なことはどうせ書いてない

僕はずっと君を眺めている

並んだ数字は

どんな意味を持っているのだろう

円周率が終わらないように

本当は僕も続けたかった

永遠の小数点

君に伝えたい愛の言葉

どこまでも　いつまでも　何億桁でも

僕の想いは　割り切れないよ

斜め前に君が座ってるのは

運が良かったのか　不運なのか？

授業に集中できない分だけ

しあわせな気持ちでいられるんだ

恋とは無限だ

好きという気持ちが続くだけ

22/7　分子割る分母

僕は何度も思い浮かべる

愛しさを整理できない

心のもやもや晴れないまま

終わりのない　この感情が　今の僕にとって

そう何よりも大切なもの

どこまで行けば　答えが出る？

誰にもわからないけれど

まあるいハートは

途切れることなく　君を想う

円周率が終わらないように

本当は僕も続けたかった

永遠の小数点

君に伝えたい愛の言葉

どこまでも　いつまでも　何億桁でも

僕の想いは　割り切れないよ

πでなんかじゃ　伝わらないよ

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
円周率 enshuuritsu N2	noun - pi (circumference ratio)
黒板 kokuban N4	noun - blackboard
反射 hansha N2	noun/verb - reflection
永遠 eien N3	noun - eternity
小数点 shousuuten N2	noun - decimal point
割り切れない warikirenai N3	adjective/verb - indivisible / unable to be settled
集中 shuuchuu N3	noun/verb - concentration
無限 mugen N2	noun - infinity
分子 bunshi N2	noun - numerator
分母 bunbo N2	noun - denominator
整理 seiri N3	noun/verb - organization / sorting out
感情 kanjou N3	noun - emotion / feeling
眺める nagameru N3	verb - to gaze at
途切れる togireru N2	verb - to be interrupted / to break off
愛しさ itoshisa N2	noun - affection / dearness

Key Grammar Structures

• 大切なことはどうせ書いてない

  ➔ Adverbial usage of 'dose' (anyway/after all)

  ➔ Use "どうせ" to express a sense of resignation or cynicism that something is expected or inevitable.

• 円周率が終わらないように

  ➔ ~ように (Purpose/Wish)

  ➔ The particle "ように" here expresses a wish or prayer that the duration of something continues.

• 本当は僕も続けたかった

  ➔ Verb stem + たかった (Past wish)

  ➔ Use "~たかった" to indicate a desire that existed in the past but was not fulfilled.

• 斜め前に君が座ってるのは

  ➔ Nominalization with 'no' (のこと/もの)

  ➔ The "の" turns the preceding clause into a noun phrase, allowing it to act as the subject of the sentence.

• 授業に集中できない分だけ

  ➔ Noun + 分だけ (To the extent of/Proportional to)

  ➔ This indicates that as the amount of one thing increases, another state increases correspondingly.

• 好きという気持ちが続くだけ

  ➔ Quotation 'to' + iu

  ➔ Use "～という" to define or clarify the noun that follows (the feeling of 'like').

• 心のもやもや晴れないまま

  ➔ Verb/Adjective + まま (While in the state of)

  ➔ Use "～まま" to describe that a situation remains unchanged while performing another action.

• πでなんかじゃ伝わらないよ

  ➔ N + なんかじゃ (Emphasis on 'like' or 'such as')

  ➔ Use "なんかじゃ" to dismiss or belittle the value of the preceding noun, often implying it is insufficient.