Kanji N2

卒: graduate, soldier, private

卒 is a JLPT N2 kanji meaning graduate, soldier, private, written with 8 strokes. It is read ソツ, シュツ (on) and そっする, おえる, おわる (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 4. You will see it in 卒業 (そつぎょう, graduation) and 卒直 (そっちょく, frank).

卒

Meanings

  • graduate
  • soldier
  • private
  • die
Strokes8
JLPT levelN2
School gradeGrade 4
Frequency#772 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ソツ
  • シュツ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • そっする
  • おえる
  • おわる
  • ついに
  • にわか

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 卒

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 卒業そつぎょう

    graduation; completion (of a course)

    JLPT N4
  • 卒直そっちょく

    frank; candid; straightforward; openhearted

    JLPT N2
  • 何卒なにとぞ

    please; kindly; I beg of you; if it pleases you

    JLPT N1
  • 大卒だいそつ

    university graduate

  • 高卒こうそつ

    having graduated from high school (as one's highest completed level of education)

  • 新卒しんそつ

    new graduate; recent graduate

  • 学卒がくそつ

    college graduate

  • 中卒ちゅうそつ

    having graduated from junior high school (as one's highest completed level of education)

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