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
- —地獄で仏に会ったようwith great relief; as if meeting a friend in need; as if having met a Buddha in hell
- —進むも地獄退くも地獄between the devil and the deep blue sea; both advancing and retreating are hell
- —地獄にも鬼ばかりではないyou can make friends anywhere; not even in hell is everyone an ogre
- —獄道wicked; evil; profligate; immoral; wastrel; scoundrel; villain; organized crime; yakuza; underworld
- —獄道者scoundrel; rake
- —蝿地獄Venus flytrap
- —生地獄hell on earth; living hell
- —地獄枘foxtail wedged tenon joint; blind tenon joint with wedges inserted into slots on its end
- —アリ地獄antlion (larva); doodlebug; antlion pit
- —あり地獄antlion (larva); doodlebug; antlion pit
- —無限地獄the Avici hell (the eighth and most painful of the eight hells); hell of uninterrupted suffering
- —打首獄門beheading followed by mounting of the head on a pike in front of the prison (Edo period)
- —地獄ほぞfoxtail wedged tenon joint; blind tenon joint with wedges inserted into slots on its end
- —地獄組みwood interlocking technique
- —地獄も住処even hell can be home
- —地獄も住家even hell can be home
- —地獄も住み家even hell can be home
- —地獄の釜の蓋もあくeven the demons of hell rest during Obon and the New Year