Illustration: In a quiet funeral room, an elderly man rests in an open coffin with his face visible above white flowers. His adult daughter gently places his familiar knitted cap beside his folded hands, pausing with a sorrowful but affectionate expression. Another relative supports her shoulder.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

死し去きょ

shikyo

to pass away

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしは新聞しんぶんで彼かれの死去しきょのことを知しった。

    I read about his death in the paper.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 国民全体こくみんぜんたいは国王こくおう死去しきょの報ほうを聞きいて悲かなしんだ。

    The whole nation was sad to hear that their king died.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 妻つまは平成へいせい5年ねんに死去しきょ。

    His wife died in 1993.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 死去

  • 死death; dieOnシKunしぬ・しに-
  • 去leave; pastOnキョ・コKunさる

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