Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Time & Sequence

卒: graduate, soldier

Also: private, die

JLPT N28 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

亠 and 十 carry the meaning · 从 is drawn in

8 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Today

Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

ソツsotsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 卒業するそつぎょうするgraduate
  • 卒論そつろんgraduation (senior) thesis
  • 中卒ちゅうそつjunior high school graduate
  • 高卒こうそつhigh school graduate
  • 大卒だいそつuniversity graduate

そっするsossuru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 脳卒中のうそっちゅうstroke

Also read シュツ, おえる, おわる, ついに, にわか, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

Learn it 4 steps
Print sheet Present
成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Reach the finish line! This radical represents the number ten and the profound sense of arrival and completeness it brings.”
More in the 十 ten story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亠

Also built on lid (亠)

All 24
从

Also built on 从

十

Also built on ten (十)

All 28

卒 gives its sound to

The family reading is スイ (sui). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read ソツ

1 kanji shares this on'yomi

Also read シュツ

2 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zú

Same form: 卒 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
卒 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
卒 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin zú most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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