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獄

JLPT N1 14 strokes Frequency: #1529

Meanings

Prison, Jail

Radicals

犭

Decomposition

⿰犭⿰言犬

Etymology

Ideographic: A guard dog 犭 talking 言 to a prisoner 犬

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 14

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

2 unknown top-to-bottom

3 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

4 dot right-to-left

5 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

6 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

7 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

8 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

9 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

10 horizontal bottom-to-top

11 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

12 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

13 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

14 dot right-to-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ゴク goku

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

78 words total

Other (20 words)

板子一枚下は地獄いたごいちまいしたはじごく

there is only the thickness of the boat's planking between one and perdition

trying of a crime

going to hell

jail

picture of Hell

beheading followed by mounting of the head on a pike in front of the prison (Edo period)

picture of Hell

released convict

prison

prisoner

Sañjīva (one of the Eight Greater Hells)

地獄ホゾじごくホゾ

foxtail wedged tenon joint

借金地獄しゃっきんじごく

debt trap

辺獄へんごく

limbo

大叫喚地獄だいきょうかんじごく

Mahāraurava

地獄で仏に会ったようじごくでほとけにあったよう

with great relief

地獄は壁一重じごくはかべひとえ

the line between good and evil is no wider than a razor's edge

地獄にも知る人じごくにもしるひと

you can make friends anywhere

地獄にも鬼ばかりではないじごくにもおにばかりではない

you can make friends anywhere

地獄を見るじごくをみる

to live through hell

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