塵じん界かいじんかいじ字FuriganaMeanings1nounthis drab world; the dusty worldBuddhist term for the mundane, impure world of suffering and desire, contrasted with the pure land. Literary and somewhat archaic in everyday speech.彼かれは塵じん界かいの苦くるしみから逃のがれようと出しゅっ家けした。He became a monk to escape the suffering of this drab world.