A formal or literary term for gambling, often used in historical or legal contexts. The more common word is 博打 (ばくち).
See also: 博打 (ばくち)
Gambling was strictly regulated in the Edo period.
He ruined himself through gambling.
賭博 is another formal term for gambling, often used in legal contexts. 博奕 is slightly more archaic.
Standard kanji form for this word.
Rarely used kanji form; 奕 is an uncommon character.
From Chinese 博弈 (bóyì), originally referring to board games and gambling. The reading ばくえき is the standard Sino-Japanese reading; ばくよう is an obsolete variant.