米寿(べいじゅ)

べいじゅ
noun
88th birthday; 88th-birthday celebration
culture
1. 88th birthday; celebration of one's eighty-eighth year
A traditional celebration of a person's 88th birthday. The name comes from the character 米(べい) (rice), which can be visually decomposed into strokes resembling 八十八(はちじゅうはち) (eighty-eight).
米寿(べいじゅ)を祝(いわ)う。
To celebrate an eighty-eighth birthday.
祖父(そふ)は今年(ことし)、米寿(べいじゅ)を迎(むか)えた。
My grandfather turned eighty-eight this year.
米寿(べいじゅ)のお祝(いわ)いとして親戚(しんせき)一同(いちどう)から記念品(きねんひん)が贈(おく)られた。
All the relatives gave him a commemorative gift to celebrate his eighty-eighth birthday.

米寿(べいじゅ) celebrates a person's 88th birthday, one of the traditional Japanese longevity milestones (長寿(ちょうじゅ)のお祝(いわ)い). The name comes from the character 米(べい) (rice), whose strokes can be read as 八十八(はちじゅうはち) (eighty-eight); the traditional celebratory color is gold.

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Part of a sequence of longevity milestones: 古希(こき) (70), 喜寿(きじゅ) (77), 傘寿(さんじゅ) (80), 米寿(べいじゅ) (88), 卒寿(そつじゅ) (90), 白寿(はくじゅ) (99).

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Added 2026.9.20 13:23 · Revised 2026.9.20 13:27
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