本厄

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 本厄(ほんやく) refers to the principal year within a period traditionally regarded as unlucky.
• Basic usage: It appears when someone is concerned about a customary age-related unlucky year or goes to a shrine to pray.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• The same reading as 翻訳
  • 翻訳(ほんやく) means translation between languages. It shares the reading but differs from 本厄 in contexts of age, unlucky years, and prayer.