成人式

せいじんしき

Meanings

1. Noun coming-of-age ceremony

Kanji

• 成 become. Read as セイ.
• 人 person. Read as ジン.
• 式 form. Read as シキ.

Example sentences

• トムね、成人式にめっちゃ派手な羽織袴で来たんだよ。
  Tom came to the coming-of-age ceremony in super flashy haori and hakama.
• 成人年齢が１８歳に引き下げられた後も、成人式は今まで通り２０歳で行うという自治体が多いようです。
  Even after the legal age of adulthood got lowered to 18, it seems like there's still a lot of places where they continue to do their coming of age ceremonies at 20, as they'd been doing before.

Common phrases

• 成人式を迎える
• 成人式を行う
• 成人式に出席する
• 成人式に参加する

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