ご臨終

Japanese

Kanji in this term
臨 終
りん
Grade: 6		 しゅう > じゅう
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Etymology

御 (“honorific prefix”) +‎ 臨終 (“dying hour”)

Noun

ご臨終 (hiragana ごりんじゅう, rōmaji gorinjū)

  1. deathbed, dying moment, dying hour, one's last breath

Usage notes

This is a formal way of saying that a person has died. For example, a doctor would use this word rather than plain 死 (し)ぬ (shinu, “die”) when informing someone that their relative has just died.

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