Hanja Analyzer
末

末 — mal

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
끝 말
Romanization
mal
English
final, last, end; insignificant
Mandarin
mò
Japanese on'yomi
マツ, バツ, ベキ, ミャク, マチ
Japanese kun'yomi
すえ うら うれ
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 4
Newspaper frequency
#456 of 2,500
Strokes
5
Radical
木 (75, 1 residual)
Unicode
U+672B

Korean example words with 末

  • 말대末代 Korean gloss: 먼 후대
  • 권말卷末 Korean gloss: 책의 맨 끝
  • 말관末官 Korean gloss: 말단의 관직
  • 말단末端 Korean gloss: 맨 끄트머리
  • 월말月末 Korean gloss: 그달의 끝 무렵
  • 추말秋末 Korean gloss: 가을이 끝나는 때
  • 말녀末女 Korean gloss: 맨 나중에 낳은 딸
  • 나말羅末 Korean gloss: 통일 신라 시대 말기
  • 말경末境 Korean gloss: 한 생의 말년의 지경
  • 연말年末 Korean gloss: 한 해의 마지막 무렵
  • 말월末月 Korean gloss: 어떤 시기의 마지막 달
  • 결말結末 Korean gloss: 어떤 일이 마무리되는 끝

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 末

  • 末すえ end; tip; top
  • 年末ねんまつ end-of-year; year-end
  • 週末しゅうまつ weekend
  • 末期まっき last years; closing years; last days
  • 末端まったん end; tip; extremities
  • 端末たんまつ terminal; computer terminal; information access device (smartphone, tablet, book-reader, etc.)
  • 世紀末せいきまつ end of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle; end of the world (esp. in fiction)
  • 幕末ばくまつ Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period
  • 月末げつまつ end of the month
  • 始末しまつ management; dealing with; settlement
  • 結末けつまつ end; conclusion
  • 粉末ふんまつ fine powder

Characters sharing the phonetic 末

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “말” in Korean.

Other hanja read “말”

Other hanja with radical 木

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