末

Meaning

末 centers on the extreme or final part of something: the tip, the end, or what comes after. The powder sense is a fine, ground-down end product, and posterity is the far end of a lineage.

• 末すえ
  N3

  end; tip; top

• 末まつ
  N1

  the end (of)

• 週末しゅうまつ
  N4

  weekend

• 端末たんまつ
  N1

  terminal; computer terminal

• 月末げつまつ
  N3

  end of the month

• 年末ねんまつ
  N1

  end-of-year; year-end

• 末期まっき
  N1

  last years; closing years; last days; closing days; end; last stage; final stages; terminal stage (of a disease)

• 結末けつまつ
  N1

  end; conclusion

• 始末しまつ
  N1

  management; dealing with; settlement; cleaning up; disposal

• 幕末ばくまつ

  Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period

• 終末しゅうまつ

  end; close; conclusion; termination

• 粉末ふんまつ
  N1

  fine powder

• 末端まったん
  N1

  end; tip; extremities; terminal

• 粗末そまつ
  N3

  crude; rough; plain; humble; shabby; poor-quality; low-quality

• 末尾まつび

  end (e.g. of report, document, paragraph, etc.)

• 末っ子すえっこ
  N3

  youngest child

• 期末きまつ
  N1

  end of term

• 巻末かんまつ

  end of a book

• 後始末あとしまつ
  N1

  settlement (of a matter); sorting out; winding up (affairs); dealing with the aftermath

• 末日まつじつ
  N1

  last day (of a month)

• 末広すえひろ

  spreading out like an open fan

• 歳末さいまつ
  N1

  year end

• 世紀末せいきまつ

  end of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle

• 端末機たんまつき

  terminal (unit)

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