Kanji1 / 5
末 kanji
end, close, tip, powder, posterity
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
マツバツ
Kun readings
すえうらうれ
Words with 末
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —末輩underling; rank and file
- —末法latter days of the law (one of the three ages of Buddhism); age of the degeneration of the law
- —瑣末trivial; trifling
- —末席lowest seat; foot of the table; seat furthest from the seat of honour; lowest rank; bottom (e.g. of the class)
- —末葉end (of an era, century); close; descendant
- —末路last days; the end; one's fate
- —末裔descendant
- —本末essence and fringe; beginning and ending; root and branch; means and end
- —文末end of a sentence
- —季末end of the season
- —毫末minute amount
- —末孫descendant
- —末筆part of end phrase in a letter
- —原末base powder; bulk powder
- —末文phrases, etc. at the ends of letters, etc.
- —末段final paragraph; final paragraphs; the end of a story of block of text
- —末家branch family
- —末妹youngest sister
- —末等last place (game, race, lottery, etc.)
- —末客last guest (tea ceremony); third guest of honour (honor); guest who sits in the seat furthest from the host and assists in various ways