Word Meaning 五逆

ごぎゃく gogyaku

五逆 is read as ごぎゃく (gogyaku) and means crime of killing one's master, father, grandfather, mother, or grandmother.

Meaning

English

crime of killing one's master, father, grandfather, mother, or grandmother
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)

Reading

Kana

ごぎゃく

Romaji

gogyaku

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 13 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N2 Jōyō Grade 5 Kanken 6級 Rank 56262 Priority I

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

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)

五輪

ごりん

Olympic rings

五線

ごせん

staff

五無間業

ごむけんごう

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)

五大州

ごだいしゅう

the five continents

五十日の祝

いかのいわい

celebration held 50 days after the birth of a child

五族協和

ごぞくきょうわ

five races under one union (Han, Manchurians, Mongolians, Hui, Tibetans; founding principle of the Republic of China)

五輪大会

ごりんたいかい

Olympic Games

五月革命

ごがつかくめい

May 68 (period of civil unrest in France; May-June 1968)

五倍子

ふし

sumac gallnut

五文型

ごぶんけい

the five sentence structures (SV, SVC, SVO, SVOO, SVOC)

五大陸

ごたいりく

the five continents