- ikai spirit world, underworld, the next world
Literary or fantasy contexts; used in fiction to mean a supernatural realm, not the everyday Christian afterlife.
異界への扉が開いた。
Ikai e no tobira ga hiraita.
The door to the spirit world opened.
彼は異界の住人だ。
Kare wa ikai no juunin da.
He is an inhabitant of the underworld.
⚖️ Not to be confused with あの世 (ano yo), which is the general term for the afterlife.
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