末まっ期き

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Common wordJLPTN1Freq.FrequencyTop 10,000

Meanings

Used for the final period of a process, era, or life; especially common for the terminal stage of a disease (e.g., 末期がん).

〈事こと〉の末まっ期きに入はいるto enter the final stage of something
会かい社しゃは経けい営えい破は綻たんの末まっ期きに入はいっていた。
The company had entered the final stage of financial collapse.
末まっ期きを迎むかえるto reach the terminal/final stage
彼かれの病びょう気きはついに末まっ期きを迎むかえた。
His illness finally reached its terminal stage.
〈時とき〉末まっ期きthe closing years of [an era/period]
江え戸ど時じ代だい末まっ期きに黒くろ船ふねが来らい航こうした。
Black Ships arrived in the closing years of the Edo period.

終しゅう末まつ期き
終末期 is the formal, clinical term for the terminal phase of an illness, while 末期 is the everyday word covering any final stage, medical or otherwise.
晩ばん期き
晩期 describes the late period of a person's life, career, or era (often neutral, e.g. an artist's late works), while 末期 more strongly implies decline or approaching an end.
後こう期きN3
末期 emphasizes the final, often terminal, stage of something (like a terminal illness), whereas 後期 more neutrally denotes the latter portion of a period without implying an ending.

初しょ期きN1
初期 means the initial stage of something, the direct opposite of 末期, the final stage.

最さい期ごN1
最期 refers specifically to the moment of death, whereas 末期 covers the whole final stretch leading up to it.
期き末まつN1
期末 uses the same two kanji reversed and means the end of a fixed term (like a school semester), quite different from 末期, the terminal stage of an illness or era.
末まっ期き的てきN1
末期 is the plain noun for 'final stage', while 末期的 is its adjectival form used to describe something as being in that terminal condition.

Compound of 末 (end, tip) and 期 (period, time). The reading まっき is a regular sound change from まつき (末 + 期).