Meanings
- prison
- jail
Strokes14
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1529 of 2,500
Kanji N1
獄: prison, jail
獄 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning prison, jail, written with 14 strokes. It is read ゴク (on), and has no common kun reading. It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 地獄 (じごく, hell realm) and 獄中 (ごくちゅう, during imprisonment).
獄
On reading · Kun reading
On reading
- ゴク
On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.
Kun reading
- None in common use
Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.
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Common words with 獄
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- JLPT N1
- 牢獄ろうごく
prison; jail; gaol
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