厄年

やくどしyakudoshi

noun

  1. unlucky year
  2. critical year
  3. year (esp. age 25 and 42 for men, 19 and 33 for women) that is considered unlucky (orig. in Onmyōdō)
  4. bad year
  5. annus horribilis

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Data from JMdict, KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG), KanjiVG, CC-CEDICT and Make Me a Hanzi. Sources and licences