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死去 (しきょ, shikyo) Japanese meaning: death | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N1 › Freq. Frequency Top 20,000 Conjugation 死去する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 死し 去きょ する 死し 去きょ しない Polite 死し 去きょ します 死し 去きょ しません Past polite 死し 去きょ しました 死し 去きょ しませんでした Past 死し 去きょ した 死し 去きょ しなかった Te-form 死し 去きょ して 死し 去きょ しないで Desire 死し 去きょ したい 死し 去きょ したくない Potential 死し 去きょ できる 死し 去きょ できない Passive 死し 去きょ される 死し 去きょ されない Causative 死し 去きょ させる 死し 去きょ させない Causative passive 死し 去きょ させられる 死し 去きょ させられない Volitional 死し 去きょ しよう Polite volitional 死し 去きょ しましょう Imperative 死し 去きょ しろ 死し 去きょ するな Conditional 死し 去きょ すれば 死し 去きょ しなければ Tara conditional 死し 去きょ したら 死し 去きょ しなかったら
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か
が
昨さく
夜や
、
自じ
宅たく
で
死し
去きょ
し
た
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The famous author passed away at home last night.
Many people mourned upon hearing the news of his death.
Usage patterns 〈 人ひと 〉 が 死し 去きょ する for someone to pass away (formal)
A famous writer passed away last week.
〈 人ひと 〉 の 死し 去きょ を 発はっ 表ぴょう する to announce someone's death
The company announced the chairman's death.
〈 人ひと 〉 の 死し 去きょ を 悼いた む to mourn someone's passing
Many people mourned his passing.
〈 数かず 〉 歳さい で 死し 去きょ する to die at the age of ~
He passed away at the age of 90.
Related words· 9 死亡 is the clinical or legal term used in statistics and official records, while 死去 is a respectful, formal way to announce a person's passing.
亡くなる is the everyday polite verb for 'to pass away,' while 死去 is a written, formal noun used in news reports and obituaries.
永眠 is a poetic, euphemistic term literally meaning 'eternal sleep,' softer in tone than the more neutral 死去.
死去 is a polite, commonly used word for someone's death, as in obituaries, while 没 is a terser, more literary term often used as a suffix, as in 病没.
Show 5 more 死去 is a polite, general word for someone's passing regardless of cause, whereas 病死 explicitly identifies illness as the cause.
死去 is a polite term used especially in obituaries and announcements, while 死 is neutral and can sound blunt.
死去 is a neutral, formal word simply meaning 'death,' while 昇天 euphemistically frames death as ascending to heaven.
死去する is a formal, often journalistic term for dying, while 逝く leans more toward literary or emotionally euphemistic usage.
Opposites 誕生 means 'birth,' the direct opposite of 死去, which means 'death' or 'passing away.'
死去 refers to the death of a person and serves as the natural opposite event to 生誕, the birth of a notable person.
Politeness 逝去 is a more honorific term used when respectfully referring to another person's death, while 死去 is the neutral formal term used generally.
死去する is a formal, written term for death used in obituaries or official reports, unlike the crude slang くたばる.
Etymology Compound of 死 (し, 'death') and 去 (きょ, 'to leave, go away'), literally 'to depart in death'. The reading is on'yomi.
死去 is a neutral, formal word simply meaning 'death', while 急逝 adds the nuance that the death happened suddenly and unexpectedly.
