Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 4

JLPT level: N3

456 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 5

Meaning: end, close, tip, powder, posterity

Kunyomi: すえ うら うれ

Onyomi: マツ バツ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading:

Meaning: tree

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

端(まったん)   end, tip, extremity

(しゅうまつ)   weekend

(げつまつ)   end of the month

(ねんまつ)   end-of-year

(けつまつ)   end conclusion

試験(きまつしけん)   final exam

な(そまつな)   coarse, shabby

期的な(まっきてきな)   decadent, terminal, final

する(しまつする)   manage, deal, settle

子(ばっし)   youngest child

(すえ)   top, end, tip

っ子(すえっこ)   youngest child

Onyomi Examples

マツ the end (of), powder

マツジツ last day (of a month)

バクマツ Bakumatsu period, closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate, end of the Edo period

シュウマツ end, close, conclusion, termination

マツロ last days, the end, one's fate

マツエイ descendant

Kunyomi Examples

すえ end, tip, top, end (of the year, month, etc.), close, youngest child, descendants, offspring, posterity, future, (finally) after, (at last) after, at the end of, trifles, trivialities, degenerate age

すえひろ spreading out like an open fan, becoming prosperous, folding fan, ceremonial folding fan

来月 らいげつまつ end of next month

すえのすえ the last

うら top end, tip

枯れ うらがれ dying of the little twigs and branches

うれ new shoots, new growth (of a tree)

うらば end leaves, top leaves, last leaves

木の このうれ treetop, tip of a branch