享年

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 享年 is read as きょうねん and means “age at death”.
• Basic usage: The examples show an artist’s age at death on a gravestone and a fictional king recorded as aged sixty-eight.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Distinguishing senses and uses
  • It is a respectful biographical term for age at death, used in obituaries and inscriptions, never for the current age of a living person.