末

See also 未, and 禾

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogram (指事): a tree (木) with its top highlighted with an extra stroke, implying the meaning of “apex”; contrast 本. (Alternatively, with fully developed fruit; contrast 未.)

Han character

末 (radical 75 木+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 木十 (DJ), four-corner 5090₀)

1. final, last, end
2. insignificant

Antonyms

• 本 未

Derived characters

• 抹 茉

Related characters

• 木 未

Descendants

• ま
• マ

References

• KangXi: page 509, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14420
• Dae Jaweon: page 891, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1150, character 2
• Unihan data for U+672B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

末 (Yale mut6)

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Japanese

Kanji

末 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: まつ (matsu), ばつ (batsu)
• Kun: すえ (sue)

Compounds

• 週末 (しゅうまつ, shūmatsu, “weekend”)

Noun

末 (hiragana すえ, romaji sue)

1. end, last
2. last child, youngest child
3. triviality

末 (hiragana まつ, romaji matsu)

1. the end
2. powder

末 (hiragana うら, romaji ura)

1. (archaic) tip, top end

末 (hiragana うれ, romaji ure)

1. (archaic) the trunk or leaves of a tree
2. (archaic) the tips of the branches of a tree

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Korean

Hanja

末 (hangeul 말, revised mal, McCune-Reischauer mal, Yale mal)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

末 (pinyin mò (mo4), Wade-Giles mo⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

末 (mạt, mất, mặt, mết, mệt, mượt)