unhealthy but unescapable relationship

withered tree branch

Kyūjitai form of 弁える

検疫: quarantine

The hiragana syllable ご (go). Its equivalent in katakana is ゴ (go).

語: language / 棊, 棋, 碁: go (board game) / 期: a specific time; death (as in "one's time has come") / 伍: a military squad (usu. of five people); a group / 午: noon; midnight

五: five / 伍: financial form of 五

御: honorific prefix used before on'yomi nouns / 互: mutual

呉: Wu China

語: language of, -ese / 後: after