Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N4

256 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: end, finish

Kunyomi: お.わる -お.わる おわ.る お.える つい つい.に

Onyomi: シュウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: いとへん

Meaning: silk

Strokes: 6

Examples

Examples with audio

了する(しゅうりょうする)   end [v.i., v.t.]

戦(しゅうせん)   end of war

(さいしゅう)   final

点(しゅうてん)   last stop (e.g. train)

わる(おわる)   finish [v.i.]

える(おえる)   finish [v.t.]

わらせる(おわらせる)   make something finish

Onyomi Examples

シュウキョク end, close, conclusion, end of a game of go, shogi, etc.

シュウエン end (of life), death, demise, (peacefully) spending one's final years

ユウシュウ carrying out to the end, bringing to completion

ムシュウ endlessness

Kunyomi Examples

わる おわる to end, to come to an end, to close, to finish

わる おわる to end, to come to an end, to close, to finish

える おえる to finish, to graduate

つい end, final, end of life, death, never, not at all

遂に ついに finally, at last, in the end, after all, never (happened)

遂に ついに finally, at last, in the end, after all, never (happened)