玉砕 ぎょくさい honorable death #25,437 Meanings noun, takes する, intransitive honorable death; death without surrender; honorable defeat colloquial trying but being utterly beaten; being completely rejected when professing one's love Its kanji 玉 ギョク · たま、たま-、-だま jewel, ball 砕 サイ · くだ.く、くだ.ける smash, break, crush, familiar, popular