Kanji1 / 14
獄 kanji
prison, jail
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ゴク
Kun readings
NoneWords with 獄
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —脱獄犯escaped prisoner; fugitive
- —地獄道naraka (hell) realm
- —地獄絵picture of Hell; painting representing Hell
- —出獄者released convict; discharged prisoner
- —獄門台platform on which the decapitated head of a criminal was displayed
- —地獄組wood interlocking technique
- —受験地獄examination hell; ordeal of entrance examinations
- —焦熱地獄burning hell; inferno
- —無間地獄the Avici hell (the eighth and most painful of the eight hells); hell of uninterrupted suffering
- —試験地獄(entrance) examination hell
- —交通地獄traffic hell; traffic congestion
- —炎熱地獄flames of hell
- —獄中日記prison diary
- —生き地獄hell on earth; living hell
- —通勤地獄commuters' hell; commuting hell
- —代用監獄police custody; police detention; substitute prison
- —阿鼻地獄Avici hell (the eighth and most painful of the eight hells)
- —疑獄事件bribery scandal
- —地獄絵図painting of a scene in Hell; a picture of Hell
- —八大地獄The Eight Greater Hells