土壺

どつぼ, ドツボdotsubo

noun

  1. terrible situation
  2. awful state of affairs
  3. (being) in the shit
  4. night-soil reservoir dug in a field
  5. night-soil pot
  6. earthenware vessel
  7. earthen urn

Kanji in this word

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