八苦

Japanese

Kanji in this term
八	苦
はち > はっ Grade: 1	く Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) はっく [háꜜkkù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
IPA^(key): [ha̠k̚kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

八苦(はっく) • (hakku)

(Buddhism) the eight kinds of suffering: birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha

Derived terms

四苦八苦(しくはっく) (shikuhakku)

References

Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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