noun
Avici; lowest level of hell
Buddhist term for the deepest, most painful hell where suffering is uninterrupted. Often appears in the set phrase 阿鼻叫喚 (あびきょうかん), meaning a scene of extreme agony and chaos.
阿鼻地獄に落ちるような苦しみだ。
It is suffering like falling into the Avici hell.
事故現場は阿鼻叫喚の地獄絵図だった。
The accident scene was a hellish picture of agonized cries.
From the Sanskrit 'Avīci', meaning 'without waves' or 'uninterrupted', referring to the continuous suffering in this hell. The kanji 阿鼻 are phonetic ateji.