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
もっともつま
Variant forms
冣Words with 最
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —最奥deep inside; innermost place
- —最東easternmost
- —最西westernmost
- —最恐scariest; most frightening
- —最凶most ominous; most sinister; most atrocious; most evil
- —最旬hottest (e.g. fashion); freshest; in vogue
- —最幸super happy; wonderful; delightful; awesome
- —最賃minimum wage
- —最優most excellent
- —最盛peak (of prosperity, popularity, etc.); height; prime
- —最狭narrowest; most cramped
- —最遅slowest; latest; tardiest
- —最高潮climax; peak; zenith; apex
- —最終回last time; last inning; last part; final episode (of a television program)
- —最小化minimization; minimisation
- —最小値minimum value
- —最新式latest style
- —最前戦front; first line; spearhead
- —最大化maximization; maximisation
- —最大値maximum value