Moto 獄: Prison; JailKanji meaning, readings, and the words that use it
- On'yomi
- ゴク
- Level
- JLPT N1Jōyō, secondary school
- Words
- 90 in the dictionary
Words that use the on'yomi (ゴク)
- 地獄じごくhell
- 獄中ごくちゅうduring imprisonment; while in jail
- 疑獄ぎごくbribery scandal; graft case
- 監獄かんごくprison
- 出獄しゅつごくrelease (from prison)
- 投獄とうごくimprisonment; incarceration
- 牢獄ろうごくprison; jail
- 生き地獄いきじごくhell on earth; living hell
- あり地獄ありじごくantlion (larva); doodlebug
- サラ金地獄サラきんじごくloan shark hell; distress caused by high-interest loans and aggressive collection methods
- 下獄げごくbeing sent to prison
- 交通地獄こうつうじごくtraffic hell, traffic congestion
- 代用監獄だいようかんごくpolice custody; police detention
- 仮出獄かりしゅつごくparole; release on bail
- 借金地獄しゃっきんじごくdebt trap; debt hell
- 入獄にゅうごくbeing imprisoned; being sent to prison
- 八大地獄はちだいじごくThe Eight Greater Hells
- 典獄てんごくprison warden
- 出獄者しゅつごくしゃreleased convict; discharged prisoner
- 刑獄けいごくjail; prison
- 受験地獄じゅけんじごくexamination hell; ordeal of entrance examinations
- 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; as if meeting a friend in need
- 地獄にも知る人じごくにもしるひとyou can make friends anywhere; (you can make) acquaintances even in hell
- 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; not even in hell is everyone an ogre
- 地獄に落ちるじごくにおちるto go to hell; to fall into hell
- 地獄の沙汰も金次第じごくのさたもかねしだいmoney talks; money is the key that opens all doors
- 地獄の釜じごくのかまthe cauldron of Hell (in which sinners are boiled)
- 地獄の釜の蓋じごくのかまのふたcreeping bugleweed (Ajuga decumbens)
- 地獄の釜の蓋もあくじごくのかまのふたもあくeven the demons of hell rest during O-Bon and the New Year
- 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
- 地獄も住み家じごくもすみかeven hell can be home
- 地獄を見るじごくをみるto live through hell; to go to hell and back
- 地獄ホゾじごくホゾfoxtail wedged tenon joint; blind tenon joint with wedges inserted into slots on its end
- 地獄変じごくへんpicture of Hell
- 地獄変相じごくへんそうpicture of Hell; painting representing Hell
- 地獄絵じごくえpicture of Hell; painting representing Hell
- 地獄絵図じごくえずpainting of a scene in Hell; a picture of Hell
- 地獄耳じごくみみsharp ear; long ears
- 地獄道じごくどうnaraka (hell) realm
- 堕獄だごくgoing to hell; falling into hell
- 大叫喚地獄だいきょうかんじごくMahāraurava; The Hell of Great Wailing
- 大獄たいごくroundup; wholesale arrest
- 安政の大獄あんせいのたいごくAnsei Purge (1858-1860)
- 打ち首獄門うちくびごくもんbeheading followed by mounting of the head on a pike in front of the prison (Edo period)
- 断獄だんごくtrying of a crime; conviction
- 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; on a boat, one is only an inch or two from a watery grave
- 炎熱地獄えんねつじごくflames of hell
- 無間地獄むげんじごくthe Avici hell (the eighth and most painful of the eight hells); hell of uninterrupted suffering
- 焦熱地獄しょうねつじごくburning hell; inferno
- 煉獄れんごくpurgatory
- 獄ごくjail; gaol
- 獄中日記ごくちゅうにっきprison diary
Other readings
- アリ地獄ありじごくantlion (larva); doodlebug
- 囚獄ごくjail; gaol
- 地獄の釜の蓋も開くじごくのかまのふたもあくeven the demons of hell rest during O-Bon and the New Year
- 地獄ほぞじごくホゾfoxtail wedged tenon joint; blind tenon joint with wedges inserted into slots on its end
- 地獄も住み処じごくもすみかeven hell can be home
- 地獄も住処じごくもすみかeven hell can be home
- 地獄も住家じごくもすみかeven hell can be home
- 地獄枘じごくホゾfoxtail wedged tenon joint; blind tenon joint with wedges inserted into slots on its end
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