末

Descendants

 * ま
 * マ

Glyph origin

 * a tree with its top highlighted with an extra stroke, implying the meaning of “apex”; contrast,.

Definitions

 * 1) tip; treetop
 * 2)  effect; result
 * 3) late or the last stage; conclusion; close
 * 4) final; the last; concluding; closing; terminal
 * 5) insignificant; trivial; inferior; low-priority; low-class
 * 6) powder; fine particulate matter
 * 7)  not; none; no negative indicator
 * 8)  a category of male roles in traditional Chinese theatre and opera
 * 1) final; the last; concluding; closing; terminal
 * 2) insignificant; trivial; inferior; low-priority; low-class
 * 3) powder; fine particulate matter
 * 4)  not; none; no negative indicator
 * 5)  a category of male roles in traditional Chinese theatre and opera
 * 1) insignificant; trivial; inferior; low-priority; low-class
 * 2) powder; fine particulate matter
 * 3)  not; none; no negative indicator
 * 4)  a category of male roles in traditional Chinese theatre and opera
 * 1) powder; fine particulate matter
 * 2)  not; none; no negative indicator
 * 3)  a category of male roles in traditional Chinese theatre and opera
 * 1)  not; none; no negative indicator
 * 2)  a category of male roles in traditional Chinese theatre and opera
 * 1)  a category of male roles in traditional Chinese theatre and opera
 * 1)  a category of male roles in traditional Chinese theatre and opera
 * 1)  a category of male roles in traditional Chinese theatre and opera
 * 1)  a category of male roles in traditional Chinese theatre and opera

Kanji

 * 1) tip, top
 * 2) end, terminal

Compounds

 * : circumstances; beginning and end; settlement, disposal
 * : weekend
 * : circumstances; beginning and end; settlement, disposal
 * : weekend
 * : circumstances; beginning and end; settlement, disposal
 * : weekend
 * : circumstances; beginning and end; settlement, disposal
 * : weekend
 * : weekend

Etymology 1
From. First attested in the  of 712.

Noun

 * 1)  the tip or top of a plant
 * 2) a twig or shoot
 * 3) a treetop
 * 4)  the tip or end of something
 * 5)  the top or peak of a mountain
 * 6)  the edge or verge of a road or field
 * 7)  a descendant
 * 8)  the future, later, after
 * 9)  the end of a period of time
 * 10)   old age, the end period of a lifetime
 * 11)   a degraded world, a world with low morals and corrupt politics
 * 12)  the end of a month, the latter third of a month
 * 13)  some time considerably later
 * 14)  the result, outcome, or trace, remains of something having been done
 * 15)  the direction in which someone has gone or will go
 * 16)  the youngest or last child
 * 17)  youth, childhood
 * 18)  the lowest seat, the seat at the foot of a table; the lowest rank
 * 19)  the last two seven-mora stanzas or lines of a  poem
 * 20)  the end of a sentence or word
 * 21)  the latter portion of a book or serial
 * 22)  the origin, the starting point
 * 23)   the interior rooms of a palace or manor where maids worked; a maid who worked in such a household
 * 24)  a low class or grade; an item of low class or grade
 * 25)  something minor, a trifle
 * 26)  downstream
 * 27)   in a  performance, the seats on the right side facing the altar or shrine; the performers playing in these seats
 * 1)  the direction in which someone has gone or will go
 * 2)  the youngest or last child
 * 3)  youth, childhood
 * 4)  the lowest seat, the seat at the foot of a table; the lowest rank
 * 5)  the last two seven-mora stanzas or lines of a  poem
 * 6)  the end of a sentence or word
 * 7)  the latter portion of a book or serial
 * 8)  the origin, the starting point
 * 9)   the interior rooms of a palace or manor where maids worked; a maid who worked in such a household
 * 10)  a low class or grade; an item of low class or grade
 * 11)  something minor, a trifle
 * 12)  downstream
 * 13)   in a  performance, the seats on the right side facing the altar or shrine; the performers playing in these seats
 * 1)  the origin, the starting point
 * 2)   the interior rooms of a palace or manor where maids worked; a maid who worked in such a household
 * 3)  a low class or grade; an item of low class or grade
 * 4)  something minor, a trifle
 * 5)  downstream
 * 6)   in a  performance, the seats on the right side facing the altar or shrine; the performers playing in these seats
 * 1)  something minor, a trifle
 * 2)  downstream
 * 3)   in a  performance, the seats on the right side facing the altar or shrine; the performers playing in these seats
 * 1)   in a  performance, the seats on the right side facing the altar or shrine; the performers playing in these seats
 * 1)   in a  performance, the seats on the right side facing the altar or shrine; the performers playing in these seats

Etymology 2
From. First attested in the  completed in 759.

Noun

 * 1)   the tip or top of a plant
 * 2) a twig or shoot
 * 3) a treetop
 * 4)   the tip or end of something
 * 1)   the tip or end of something
 * 1)   the tip or end of something

Etymology 3
From. First attested in the  completed in 759.

Noun

 * 1)   the tip or top of a plant
 * 2) a twig or shoot
 * 3) a treetop
 * 1) a treetop

Etymology 4
From.

First attested in Japanese in 1120.

Noun

 * 1)  powder
 * 2)   in traditional Chinese theater, an extra, a minor part
 * 1)   in traditional Chinese theater, an extra, a minor part

Suffix

 * 1)  the end of a period of time

Hanja

 * 1) (끝): the end, last, low
 * 2) (가루): flour, powder
 * 3) (허드레): something coarse, improper, inferior, trivial
 * 4) * 1431: 鄕藥採取月令 十二月 (향약채취월령 십이월, hyang-yag-chaechwi-wolryeong sib-iwol):
 * "ko"

- 芰實鄕名末栗 (기실향명말밤, gisil-hyangmyeong-malbam, "The folk name of the water caltrop fruit is coarse chestnut.")

Compounds

 * end, last
 * 末端 (말단, maldan)
 * 末年 (말년, malnyeon)
 * 年末 (연말, yeonmal)
 * 終末 (종말, jongmal)
 * 期末 (기말, kimal)
 * flour, powder
 * 紛末 (분말, bunmal)
 * something coarse
 * 末栗 (말밤, malbam)