Kanji1 / 14
獄 kanji
prison, jail
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
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- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Secondary school
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NoneWords with 獄
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- —地獄変相picture of Hell; painting representing Hell
- —等活地獄Sañjīva (one of the Eight Greater Hells); hell of being torn to pieces and revived over and over
- —地獄ホゾfoxtail wedged tenon joint; blind tenon joint with wedges inserted into slots on its end
- —借金地獄debt trap; debt hell; being in debt up to one's ears
- —地獄の釜the cauldron of Hell (in which sinners are boiled)
- —地獄に仏manna from heaven; an oasis in the desert; godsend; good fortune when one needed it most; meeting a good Samaritan in one's hour of need; (meeting) Buddha in hell
- —打ち首獄門beheading followed by mounting of the head on a pike in front of the prison (Edo period)
- —大叫喚地獄Mahāraurava; The Hell of Great Wailing; The Great Screaming Hell; the fifth of eight hot hells in Buddhism
- —地獄を見るto live through hell; to go to hell and back; to suffer dire straits
- —安政の大獄Ansei Purge (1858-1860)
- —サラ金地獄loan shark hell; distress caused by high-interest loans and aggressive collection methods
- —地獄は壁一重the line between good and evil is no wider than a razor's edge
- —地獄に落ちるto go to hell; to fall into hell; to be damned
- —地獄の釜の蓋creeping bugleweed (Ajuga decumbens)
- —天国から地獄(going straight) from heaven to hell
- —地獄にも知る人you can make friends anywhere; (you can make) acquaintances even in hell
- —板子一枚下は地獄there is only the thickness of the boat's planking between one and perdition; on a boat, one is only an inch or two from a watery grave
- —地獄の沙汰も金次第money talks; money is the key that opens all doors; money is the best lawyer in hell; even the verdict of hell is determined by money
- —聞いて極楽見て地獄don't believe everything you hear; what is a paradise on hearsay may be a hell at sight
- —地獄の釜の蓋も開くeven the demons of hell rest during Obon and the New Year