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    3. 生き地獄

    生き地獄

    生いき​地じ獄ごく

    hell on earth

    KMT10News #46+1NounEmotions & PsychologyKanji Vocab29 strokes

    生地獄

    いきじごく

    Noun

    1.
    hell on earth, living hell

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    その経けい験けんは生いき地じ獄ごくだった。

    That experience was a living hell.

    KMT8Emotions & Psychology
    戦せん争そうは多おおくの人ひと々びとにとって生いき地じ獄ごくだ。

    War is a living hell for many people.

    KMT10MilitaryEmotions & Psychology
    終おわりの見みえない苦く痛つうは、まさに生いき地じ獄ごくとしか言いいようがない。

    The endless suffering can only be described as a living hell.

    KMT10Emotions & PsychologyLiterature
    彼かの女じょは病びょう気きの子こ供どもを看かん病びょうする日ひ々びを生いき地じ獄ごくだと感かんじていた。

    She felt that the days of nursing her sick child were a living hell.

    KMT10Emotions & PsychologyFamily & RelationshipsMedicine & Health
    借しゃっ金きんに追おわれる生せい活かつは、彼かれにとって生いき地じ獄ごくだった。

    Life pursued by debt was a living hell for him.

    KMT10Emotions & PsychologyDaily LifeBusiness & Finance

    Characters that make up this word

    生
    い.きる・い.かす・い.ける・う.まれる・うま.れる・う.まれ…(39)
    life・genuine・birth
    Kanji
    地
    ground・earth
    Kanji
    獄
    prison・jail
    Kanji
    き
    ki
    Kana
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