--- title: "How to pronounce \"karoshi\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"karoshi\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/bseWFCHATzU/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/karoshi" --- # How to pronounce "karoshi" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/kəˈɹəʊʃi/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **ka·ro·shi** - **Stress**: **SHI** — say this syllable louder and longer - **Native Audio**: [Listen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/17/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-karoshi.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-karoshi.wav.mp3) ## Meaning & Usage ### NOUN - Death, such as from heart attack or stroke, brought on by overwork or job-related stress. - *Example*: "For a while he began to speak Japanese, rather slangy, never having seemed to learn it — karoshi for death from overwork, yakitaori-ya for eatery, and gaijin for clumsy foreigner." ### Example Sentences - "For a while he began to speak Japanese, rather slangy, never having seemed to learn it — karoshi for death from overwork, yakitaori-ya for eatery, and gaijin for clumsy foreigner." - "karoshi optics best i've got and should be about right under the circumstances so cool he's gonna upgrade the eyes" - "Karoshi a decade's old law essentially prevents them from being paid for overtime his widow a former teacher herself" ### Common Phrases - karoshi line ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "karoshi" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "stand up in real life it keeps saying system malfunction i wonder if that's the bugs that we're talking about karoshi optics best i've got and should be about right under the circumstances so cool he's gonna upgrade the eyes that is awesome now jackie i got lasik surgery by the way best thing i've ever done all right let's put it in although i don't really" - **Watch at 51:30**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bseWFCHATzU&t=3090s) ### Example 2 > "years of age his diary entries told of a punishing work day that started early and could last until nearly midnight teachers are particularly vulnerable to Karoshi a decade's old law essentially prevents them from being paid for overtime his widow a former teacher herself says attitudes to Karoshi need to change for about a year before he passed away" - **Watch at 1:00**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMV2H8u9As&t=60s) ### Example 3 > "and a lot of that is leading to this phenomenon of death from overwork or Karoshi as has been known about since at least the 1970s at least that's when the term came into being I mean that's a pretty long time so why has it been so hard for employers to address this and change things well first of all I should uh clarify that you know the Karoshi is a work that" - **Watch at 7:58**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMV2H8u9As&t=478s) ### Example 4 > "was invented by Japan um and there's this thing called the Karoshi line which is uh designated as more than 80 hours of overwork in a month and um which means that if you're working over 80 hours of overtime in a month you are at the risk of kerosity right so there's" - **Watch at 8:25**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMV2H8u9As&t=505s) ### Example 5 > "not necessarily unique to Japan uh and what is unique to Japan is that Japanese governments are the best of my knowledge is the only country which collects data of Karoshi right so um and that's kind of like had this unfortunate distinction that Japan is a country where people die from overwork well having said that the karoshi's statistics basically show that uh it's you're right I mean the world has been" - **Watch at 9:10**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMV2H8u9As&t=550s) ### Example 6 > "It's called "karoshi." And I include in "Mind Over Medicine" all of the data showing how much work stress" - **Watch at 30:27**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcai0i2tJt0&t=1827s) ### Example 7 > "Karoshi a decade's old law essentially prevents them from being paid for overtime his widow a former teacher herself says attitudes to Karoshi need to change for about a year before he passed away he would often say how tired he was and how bad a headache he had from when he moved to the new school in April until he died two months later he kept saying" - **Watch at 1:08**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMV2H8u9As&t=68s) ### Example 8 > "um which means that if you're working over 80 hours of overtime in a month you are at the risk of kerosity right so there's this thing called the Karoshi line and by that definition uh if you look at like the oecd statistics a lot of companies uh I mean a lot of countries you know there are actually a lot of people that are at risk in other countries uh by this definition so it's" - **Watch at 8:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMV2H8u9As&t=521s) ### Example 9 > "and it's it's on a recline in more recent years one of the reasons that it's come to um get some attention or unwanted attention uh is that Karoshi uh is starting to there there were some incidences of Karoshi among big companies right like big uh companies listed on the total Stock Exchange" - **Watch at 9:49**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMV2H8u9As&t=589s) ### Example 10 > "attention uh is that Karoshi uh is starting to there there were some incidences of Karoshi among big companies right like big uh companies listed on the total Stock Exchange and so it was no longer like a problem that was uh" - **Watch at 9:56**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMV2H8u9As&t=596s) ## How to Pronounce "karoshi" - **Syllables**: ka · ro · shi - **Stress**: SHI — say this syllable louder and longer - **IPA**: `/kəˈɹəʊʃi/` - **Listen for**: the stressed /SHI/ in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Related Concepts [guolaosi](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/guolaosi), [gwarosa](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/gwarosa) ## Related Pronunciations [kalashi](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/kalashi) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “karoshi”? “karoshi” is pronounced /kəˈɹəʊʃi/ (ka · ro · shi). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “karoshi”? “karoshi” has 3 syllables: ka · ro · shi. ### Where is the stress in “karoshi”? The primary stress in “karoshi” is on “SHI”. Listen for that stressed syllable in the clips above. ### What does “karoshi” mean? Death, such as from heart attack or stroke, brought on by overwork or job-related stress. ### How can I hear “karoshi” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “karoshi” with synchronized subtitles. 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