Kanji1 / 12
最 kanji
utmost, most, extreme
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
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Kun readings
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Variant forms
冣Words with 最
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —最優秀成績first-class honors (e.g. in UK-style degrees) (honours)
- —必要最低限bare minimum; minimum necessary (amount, number, etc.)
- —最終点火者Olympic Cauldron lighter; Olympic torch lighter; last runner in the Olympic torch relay
- —最有力候補most likely contender; prime candidate; top prospect; leading candidate
- —最高裁判事Supreme Court justice; Supreme Court judge
- —最初で最後first and last (time, chance, etc.); (the) only
- —最高権力者person of paramount authority; supreme wielder of power
- —最多本塁打the most home runs
- —最低保障給guaranteed minimum income
- —最高レベルhighest level
- —最低レベルlowest level
- —最低賃金法Minimum Wage Act
- —最小公分母lowest common denominator; least common denominator; LCD
- —最終的解決final resolution; final solution; Final Solution (Nazi Germany program of extermination of Jews)
- —必要最小限minimum necessary; bare minimum; minimal requirement
- —最高指揮官supreme commander; commander-in-chief; captain general
- —最善を尽くすto do one's best; to do something to the best of one's ability
- —最長不倒距離day's longest successful jump
- —幕内最高優勝tournament win in the highest division
- —パレート最適Pareto optimum