卒寿(そつじゅ)

そつじゅ
noun
90th birthday; 90th-birthday celebration
culture
1. 90th birthday; celebration of one's ninetieth year
A traditional celebration of a person's 90th birthday. The name comes from the informal simplified form of 卒(そつ), whose components can be read as 九十(きゅうじゅう) (ninety).
卒寿(そつじゅ)を迎(むか)える。
To turn ninety.
祖母(そぼ)は来月(らいげつ)、卒寿(そつじゅ)を迎(むか)える。
My grandmother turns ninety next month.
卒寿(そつじゅ)のお祝(いわ)いに、孫(まご)たちが手紙(てがみ)を書(か)いた。
The grandchildren wrote letters to celebrate her ninetieth birthday.

卒寿(そつじゅ) celebrates a person's 90th 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 informal simplified form of 卒(そつ), whose components can be read as 九十(きゅうじゅう) (ninety); the traditional celebratory color is purple.

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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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