終活
Chinese edit
end; finish | to live; alive; living to live; alive; living; work; workmanship | ||
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trad. (終活) | 終 | 活 | |
simp. (终活) | 终 | 活 |
Etymology edit
Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 終活 (shūkatsu).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
終活
- (medicine) to make end-of-life preparations
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | |
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終 | 活 |
しゅう Grade: 3 |
かつ Grade: 2 |
on’yomi |
Etymology edit
Based upon 就活 (shukatsu); perhaps understandable as 週末活動 (shūmatsu katsudō).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
終活 • (shūkatsu) ←しゆうくわつ (syuukwatu)?
- taking care of one's affairs before death
References edit
- ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN