喜寿(きじゅ)

きじゅ
noun
77th birthday; 77th-birthday celebration
culture
1. 77th birthday; celebration of one's seventy-seventh year
A celebration of a person's 77th birthday. The term comes from the cursive form of the character 喜(よろこ)び (joy), whose shape resembles the figures for seventy-seven.
祖父(そふ)は喜寿(きじゅ)を迎(むか)えた。
My grandfather turned seventy-seven.
喜寿(きじゅ)のお祝(いわ)いの会(かい)を開(ひら)いた。
We held a celebration for his seventy-seventh birthday.
喜寿(きじゅ)は、喜(よろこ)びという字(じ)の形(かたち)が七十七(しちじゅうしち)に見(み)えることに由来(ゆらい)する。
The term kiju comes from the fact that the cursive form of the character for "joy" looks like seventy-seven.

A celebration of one's 77th birthday, one of the traditional longevity milestones. The name plays on the cursive form of 喜(よろこ)び, which resembles the figures for seventy-seven.

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Related: 古希(こき) (70th-birthday celebration)
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