Word Meaning 聞いて極楽見て地獄

きいてごくらくみてじごく kiitegokurakumitejigoku

聞いて極楽見て地獄 is read as きいてごくらくみてじごく (kiitegokurakumitejigoku) and means don't believe everything you hear.

Meaning

English

don't believe everything you hear
what is a paradise on hearsay may be a hell at sight

Reading

Kana

きいてごくらくみてじごく

Romaji

kiitegokurakumitejigoku

Stroke Sequence

9 Characters • 70 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 3級 Rank 55608 Priority I

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

地獄を見る

じごくをみる

to live through hell

地獄

じごく

hell

生き地獄

いきじごく

hell on earth

八大地獄

はちだいじごく

The Eight Greater Hells

交通地獄

こうつうじごく

traffic hell, traffic congestion

無間地獄

むげんじごく

the Avici hell (the eighth and most painful of the eight hells)

板子一枚下は地獄

いたごいちまいしたはじごく

there is only the thickness of the boat's planking between one and perdition

天国から地獄

てんごくからじごく

(going straight) from heaven to hell

受験地獄

じゅけんじごく

examination hell

サラ金地獄

さらきんじごく

loan shark hell

進むも地獄退くも地獄

すすむもじごくしりぞくもじごく

between the devil and the deep blue sea

試験地獄

しけんじごく

(entrance) examination hell