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): ㄓㄨㄥ ㄏㄨㄛˊ

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

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).

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