最期

Japanese

Kanji in this term
最	期
さい Grade: 4	ご Grade: 3
on'yomi	goon

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) さいご [sáꜜìgò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [sa̠iɡo̞]

Noun

最(さい)期(ご) • (saigo)

death; downfall, collapse; end of life; last moment
彼(かれ)は戦争(せんそう)で悲惨(ひさん)な最期(さいご)を遂(と)げた。
Kare wa sensō de hisan na saigo o togeta.
He met a terrible death in the war.

帝国(ていこく)の最期(さいご)
teikoku no saigo
the downfall of an empire
the extinction of a family
平家(たいらけ)の最期(さいご)
Taira-ke no saigo
the extinction of the Taira clan

Antonyms

誕生(たんじょう) (tanjō)
成立(せいりつ) (seiritsu)

See also

(not to be confused with) 最後(さいご) (saigo): last
死亡(しぼう) (shibō)
死去(しきょ) (shikyo)
消滅(しょうめつ) (shōmetsu)
滅亡(めつぼう) (metsubō)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

“最期”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Ineko Kondō, Fumi Takano, Mary E. Althaus, et al. (2002), Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, third edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN