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末 — tip; end; final stage

tip; end; final stage; latter part; inessential detail; powder

Pinyin
mò · me
Strokes
5
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — mò, me — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 末: 5 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

末 — 5 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 末 in the HSK syllabus: 5

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 周末zhōumòweekendHSK 3
  2. 末mòtip; end; final stage; latter partHSK 4
  3. 期末qīmòthe end of a term or semesterHSK 4
  4. 粉末fěnmòfine powder; dustHSK 7–9
  5. 末日mòrìJudgment DayHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.