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無間地獄無限地獄 [iK]
むけんじごく (無間地獄)むげんじごく
1. [n] [yoji] {Buddhism}
▶ the Avici hell (the eighth and most painful of the eight hells)
▶ hell of uninterrupted suffering
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 2846303 無間【むけん】 2. the Avici hell



History:
8. A 2023-05-05 05:51:24  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
7. A* 2023-05-05 05:22:20  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
無限地獄 seems to be a common irregular form. Lots of hits on twitter.

https://twitter.com/HarukaKSHG/status/1650361153053413377
  「延々と」を「永遠と」と書いたものが堕ちる地獄が"無限地獄"です
  これは「無間地獄」を「無限地獄」だと間違える人が多いことも含めたアレです

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 無間地獄   │ 21,553 │ 69.0% │
│ 無限地獄   │  9,391 │ 30.1% │ - add, iK
│ むけんじごく │    123 │  0.4% │
│ むげんじごく │    167 │  0.5% │
╰─ーーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -6,0 +7,4 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>無限地獄</keb>
+<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
@@ -8,0 +13 @@
+<re_restr>無間地獄</re_restr>
6. A 2023-03-01 04:35:56  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
5. A* 2023-03-01 02:05:18  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
The yoji dictionaries (gakken, shinmeikai, jitenon) all prefer the けん reading
  Diff:
@@ -8 +8 @@
-<reb>むげんじごく</reb>
+<reb>むけんじごく</reb>
@@ -11 +11 @@
-<reb>むけんじごく</reb>
+<reb>むげんじごく</reb>
4. A 2022-08-10 08:09:10  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Adding yoji tags based on gakken, shinmeikai and-or jitenon
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-
  Diff:
@@ -15,0 +16 @@
+<misc>&yoji;</misc>
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