Kanji1 / 14
獄 kanji
prison, jail
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
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Kun readings
NoneWords with 獄
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —獄卒low-ranking prison guard; hell's tormenting devils
- —獄門prison gate; decapitation (of a criminal) and exposure of the head to public view (Edo-period punishment)
- —獄屋prison
- —獄窓prison window; (behind) prison bars
- —大獄roundup; wholesale arrest
- —断獄trying of a crime; conviction; condemnation to death by beheading
- —堕獄going to hell; falling into hell
- —獄囚prisoner
- —獄所prison
- —辺獄limbo
- —獄則prison regulations; prison rules
- —獄内inside a prison; in prison
- —獄司jail warden; jailer
- —仮出獄parole; release on bail
- —蟻地獄antlion (larva); doodlebug; antlion pit
- —脱獄囚escaped prisoner
- —蠅地獄Venus flytrap
- —獄中記prison diary; diary written in prison
- —地獄変picture of Hell
- —地獄耳being readily aware of rumors and gossip; being quick to learn secrets; having sharp ears; ability to remember everything one hears