Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
stop
Parts:
Variants:
year-end, age, occasion, opportunity
Kun:
としとせよわい
On:
サイセイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N3
269 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 歳 【サイ】 ... years old, age (of) ...
  • 歳月 【サイゲツ】 time, years
  • 歳歳 【サイサイ】 annual
  • 年年歳歳 【ネンネンサイサイ】 annually, every year, year in year out, from year to year
  • 歳暮 【セイボ】 year-end gift, end of the year, year end

Kun reading compounds

  • 年 【とし】 year, age, years, past one's prime, old age
  • 年取った 【としとった】 old (person), aged
  • いい年 【いいとし】 mature age, advanced age, maturity, age when one is old enough to know better
  • 大年 【おおとし】 New Year's Eve, Jupiter (planet)
  • 年 【とせ】 counter for years (following a number in the hito-futa-mi counting system)
  • 万年 【まんねん】 ten thousand years, eternity, perennial, perpetual
  • 二十歳 【はたとせ】 twenty years

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sui4
Korean:
se

Spanish

  • año
  • edad

Portuguese

  • Fim de ano
  • idade
  • ocasião
  • oportunidade

French

  • fin d'année
  • âge
  • compteur d'années
  • occasion
  • opportunité
1294 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
550 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2434 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1418 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
653 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1995 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
479 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
487 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
703 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1131 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3131 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1605 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2190 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
394 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
16326P Morohashi
2490 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2962 New Nelson (John Haig)
512 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
551 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1636 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1259 2001 Kanji
4n9.5 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-9 SKIP code
2125.3 Four corner code
1-26-48 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6b73 Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
tree
Parts:
end, close, tip, powder, posterity
Kun:
すえうらうれ
On:
マツバツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
456 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 末 【マツ】 the end (of), powder
  • 末日 【マツジツ】 last day (of a month)
  • 幕末 【バクマツ】 Bakumatsu period, closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate, end of the Edo period
  • 終末 【シュウマツ】 end, close, conclusion, termination
  • 末路 【マツロ】 last days, the end, one's fate
  • 末裔 【マツエイ】 descendant

Kun reading compounds

  • 末 【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
  • 末広 【すえひろ】 spreading out like an open fan, becoming prosperous, folding fan, ceremonial folding fan
  • 来月末 【らいげつまつ】 end of next month
  • 末の末 【すえのすえ】 the last
  • 末 【うら】 top end, tip
  • 末枯れ 【うらがれ】 dying of the little twigs and branches
  • 末 【うれ】 new shoots, new growth (of a tree)
  • 末葉 【うらば】 end leaves, top leaves, last leaves
  • 木の末 【このうれ】 treetop, tip of a branch

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mo4
Korean:
mal

Spanish

  • aún
  • punta
  • extremo
  • final
  • polvo
  • fin
  • futuro
  • el más joven

Portuguese

  • não ainda
  • fim
  • fechar
  • dica
  • posteridade

French

  • extrémité
  • fin
  • dernier
  • poudre
  • avenir
  • postérité
515 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
615 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
587 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
528 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
177 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
565 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
616 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
211 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.16 Japanese for Busy People
305 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
305 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
584 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1047 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4317 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2184 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2940 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
222 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14420 Morohashi
3505 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2534 New Nelson (John Haig)
217 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
230 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
457 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1464 2001 Kanji
0a5.26 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-3 SKIP code
5090.0 Four corner code
1-43-86 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
672b Unicode hex code