七しち難なん八はっ苦く

noun

the Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains

Buddhist term referring to a specific set of calamities and sufferings. Rarely used outside religious or historical contexts.

• 仏ぶっ教きょうの経きょう典てんには七しち難なん八はっ苦くが説とかれている。

  The Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains are expounded in Buddhist scriptures.

noun

a series of disasters; one misfortune after another

Figurative extension of the Buddhist term, used to describe a string of severe hardships or calamities in everyday life. Literary and somewhat dramatic.

• 彼かれは七しち難なん八はっ苦くを乗のり越こえて成せい功こうした。

  He overcame a series of disasters and succeeded.

• この一いち年ねんはまさに七しち難なん八はっ苦くだった。

  This past year was truly one misfortune after another.