五逆罪
ごぎゃくざい
five cardinal sins (killing one's father, killing one's mother, killing an arhat, shedding the blood of a Buddha, causing a schism within the sangha)
Word Meaning 五罪
ござい
gozai
五罪 is read as ござい (gozai) and means five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death).
Meaning
English
- five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)
- five punishments (of the ritsuryō system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)
Reading
Kana
ござい
Romaji
gozai
Stroke Sequence
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Related Vocabulary
Max. 12五公五民
ごこうごみん
land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half