Kanji
Readingやく
Frequency23%
Used in (21 in total)
calamity; disaster; accident
calamity; disaster; accident
misfortune; bad luck; unlucky year; critical year; (arch.) smallpox
unlucky day; evil day
unlucky year; critical year; year (esp. age 25 and 42 for men, 19 and 33 for women) that is considered unlucky (orig. in Onmyōdō); bad year; annus horribilis
calamity; disaster; great misfortune; grand climacteric
warding off evil; protecting against misfortune
exorcism; ceremonial cleansing from evil influence
escape from evil; exorcism
god who spreads infectious diseases; god of pestilence
hardship and misfortune
calamity; evil; misfortune
distress; disaster
the year before a critical age; the year before an inauspicious year
critical year in one's life; inauspicious year
bad luck; misfortune
the year following an inauspicious year
to exorcise; to escape evil
smallpox; variola
the year before the unlucky year
victimized by the unlucky year; victimised by the unlucky year