無間

むけん

Also written むげん

Meanings

1. Noun ceaselessness; incessancy
2. the Avici hell See also: 無間地獄 (むけんじごく).

Kanji

• 無 without. Read as ム.
• 間 interval. Read as ケン.

Words containing 無間

• 無間地獄 (むけんじごく) the Avici hell (the eighth and most painful of the eight hells)
• 無間奈落 (むげんならく) Avici hell (the eighth and most painful of the eight hells)
• 五無間業 (ごむけんごう) five cardinal sins (killing one's father, killing one's mother, killing an arhat, shedding the blood of a Buddha, causing a schism within the sangha)

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