漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
獄: prison, jail
JLPT N114 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
⺨ carries the meaning · 言 and 犬 are drawn in
14 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ゴクgoku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 地獄じごく
- 獄中ごくちゅうduring imprisonment; while in jail
- 監獄かんごくprison
- 疑獄ぎごくbribery scandal; graft case
- 投獄とうごくimprisonment; incarceration
- 出獄しゅつごくrelease (from prison)
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Watch the wild beast stalking through the brush! These three quick strokes capture the energy of a four-legged animal on the prowl.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ゴク
1 kanji shares this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side獄 prison · ⺨ + 犬
vs誇 boast · 夸In ChineseSimplified 狱 · traditional, as in Japanese · yù
Japan keeps the traditional form 獄; mainland China simplifies it to 狱.
- Simplified
- 狱 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 獄 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yù most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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