夭よう死し

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'

premature death; dying young

A formal, literary term for dying at a young age. In modern Japanese, 若死に (わかじに) is more common in everyday contexts.

• 彼かれは夭よう死しした天てん才さい画が家かとして知しられている。

  He is known as a genius painter who died young.

• この詩し人じんは夭よう死しのため作さく品ひんが少すくない。

  This poet has few works because of his premature death.