終活

Chinese
end; finish
 
to live; alive; living
to live; alive; living; work; workmanship
trad. (終活) 終 活
simp. (终活) 终 活

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 終活 (shūkatsu).

Pronunciation

Verb

終活

  1. (medicine) to make end-of-life preparations

Japanese
Kanji in this term
終 活
しゅう
Grade: 3		 かつ
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

Based upon 就活(しゅかつ) (shukatsu); perhaps understandable as 週末(しゅうまつ)活動(かつどう) (shūmatsu katsudō).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɕɨᵝːka̠t͡sɨᵝ]

Noun

終(しゅう)活(かつ) • (shūkatsu) ←しゆうくわつ (syuukwatu)?

  1. taking care of one's affairs before death

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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