末

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Derived characters 1.2.2 Descendants 1.2.3 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Ideogram (指事): a tree (木) with its top highlighted with an extra stroke, implying the meaning of “apex”.

[edit] Han character

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

1. final, last, end
2. insignificant

[edit] Derived characters

• 抹

[edit] Descendants

• ま
• マ

[edit] 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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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

末 (Yale mut6)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

末 (grade 4 kanji)

[edit] Readings

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

[edit] Compounds

• 週末 (しゅうまつ, shūmatsu), “‘weekend’”)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

末 (pinyin mò (mo4), Wade-Giles mo⁴)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

末 (mạt, mất, mặt, mết, mệt, mượt)