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First opened Thursday, July 24, 2014

済む

すむ

  • head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1

How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).

to finish, to end

JLPT N4CommonGodan verb with 'mu' endingintransitive verb和語 · Native Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 済

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What Wiktionary says

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What the labels mean

和語 Native Japanese
Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.

Also read すむ

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • 済むThis word

    to finish, to end

    す↓む head-high (atamadaka)

  • 住む

    to reside, to live in

    す↓む head-high (atamadaka)

  • 澄む

    to clear (e.g., weather), to become transparent

    す↓む head-high (atamadaka)

  • 清む

    to clear (e.g., weather), to become transparent

    す↓む head-high (atamadaka)

Also opened on July 24

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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