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

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhōnghuó

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥㄏㄨㄛˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhōnghuó
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥㄏㄨㄛˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhonghuó
  - Wade–Giles: chung¹-huo²
  - Yale: jūng-hwó
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jonghwo
  - Palladius: чжунхо (čžunxo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ xu̯ɔ³⁵/

Verb

終活

(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)^?}

taking care of one's affairs before death

References

1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

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