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End Top Extremity Longer Posterity Close E.G Youngest

Kanji
Onyomi マツ、バツ
Kunyomi すえ
English not yet, end, close, tip, powder, posterity
Examples 末(すえ): (1) tip; top (2) end; close (e.g. close of the month) (3) youngest child (4) descendants; offspring; posterity (5) future (6) finally (7) trivialities
末期(まっき): (1) closing years (period, days); last stage; end stage; end-of-life (care, decision making, etc.) (2) terminal (e.g. cancer, disease, etc.); final
月末(げつまつ): end of the month
始末(しまつ): (1) management; dealing; settlement (2) cleaning up; getting rid of (3) end result (usu. bad)
粉末(ふんまつ): fine powder
粗末(そまつ): crude; rough; plain; humble
期末(きまつ): end of term
末っ子(すえっこ): youngest child
末(うら): top end; tip
末(まつ): (1) the end of (2) powder
JLPT Level 3
Jouyou Grade 4
Frequency 456
Components 木: tree; wood
Number of Strokes 5
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 75
Radical Strokes 4
Radical Reading き・きへん
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 指事 Ideographic
Keyword extremity
Koohii Story 1 The tree has reached the extremity of its growth and no longer produces small, new branches at the top. Instead the existing top branch just grows longer and longer.
Koohii Story 2 There are no great stories for this one yet, and I always forget it.. So, let´s try something ridiculous: The man lived by himself in the wilderness, with no females within miles. So, his only way of relief was to stick his extremity into a small hole in a tree.. The poor guy. Which horizontal stroke is the extremity? The longer one or the shorter one? That, my friends, is up to your own imaginations. I´d prefer not to dwell on that point, myself. ;).
RTK Index 217

Tags: jlpt.n3, grade4, kanjifreq251-500

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