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獄
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Rare term
trying of a crime; conviction
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condemnation to death by beheading
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Buddhism
Sañjīva (one of the Eight Greater Hells); hell of being torn to pieces and revived over and over
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examination hell; ordeal of entrance examinations
Examples
受験地獄での戦いが終わりました。
My fight in our examination hell is over!
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Proverb
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
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Buddhism
Mahāraurava; The Hell of Great Wailing; The Great Screaming Hell; the fifth of eight hot hells in Buddhism
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Work of art, literature, music, etc. name
The Woman-Killer (bunraku play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon); The Woman-Killer and the Hell of Oil
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Idiomatic expression
with great relief; as if meeting a friend in need; as if having met a Buddha in hell
