冥土

Japanese
Kanji in this term
冥 土
めい
Grade: S		 ど
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Alternative forms

Noun

冥土 (hiragana めいど, rōmaji meido)

  1. (Buddhism) Hades; underworld; the world of the dead

Synonyms

Idioms
  • 冥土 (めいど)の土産 (みやげ) (meido no miyage): something that one wants to see or do before one dies; a final wish

References
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.
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