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: さんずい(氵)

Meaning

Finish / Settle / Relieve / Save

Conjugation
Tap for 済む (be settled) Tap for 済ます (settle)
  • 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.

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