危篤 (kitoku) Japanese meaning: critical condition | Kotomora絡
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The hospital contacted us to say that my grandfather is in critical condition.
I rushed back to my family home after receiving news that a relative was on the verge of death.
Usage patterns
〈人〉が危篤になるfor someone to fall into critical condition
When I heard that my grandfather had gone into critical condition, I rushed to the hospital.
危篤の知らせが届くfor news of someone's critical condition to arrive
危篤から回復するto recover from a critical condition
In the middle of the night, news came that he was in critical condition, and the whole family rushed to the hospital.
Thanks to the doctors' desperate efforts, he recovered from his critical condition.
