Illustration: In a hospital intensive-care room, an elderly patient lies unresponsive with a breathing tube connected to a ventilator and several carefully secured intravenous lines. A nurse checks the patient closely while a doctor remains at the bedside, posture alert and serious.

JLPT N1no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

危き篤とく

kitoku

critical, near death

Used for a person’s medical condition. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

彼かれは危篤きとく状態じょうたいだった。
He was in critical condition.
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君きみのお母かあさんは危篤きとくだ。
Your mother is in critical condition.
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病気びょうきの少年しょうねんは危篤きとく状態じょうたいだ。
The sick boy is in a critical condition.
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Kanji in 危篤

危dangerous; fearOnキKunあぶない・あやうい・あやぶむ
篤fervent; kindOnトクKunあつい

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