済

音読おんよみ: サイ・セイ

訓読くんよみ:・すます

画数かくすう: 11

部首ぶしゅ: 氵(さんずい)

Meaning

Finish / Settle / Relieve / Save

  • 救済きゅうさい — relief / aid
  • 経済けいざい — economy
  • 返済へんさい — repayment
  • 弁済べんさい — indemnification
  • む — to be settled / to end
  • ます — to finish / to get through

is closely related to resolving matters, whether financial, religious, or social. It appears in words like 経済 (economy) and 済度 (spiritual salvation), showing how “completion” or “helping through” is central to the character’s meaning.

仕事しごと無事ぶじみました。
The work finished safely.

返済へんさい来週らいしゅうまでに おねがいします。
Please repay it by next week.

経
Creates
経済けいざい — economy
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