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
- —最古参oldest member of a group; longest-serving member
- —最下階bottom floor; lowest floor
- —最大級largest class; top category
- —最東端easternmost tip (point, extremity, etc.)
- —最有力strongest (candidate); likeliest (winner); top (suspect)
- —最の高awesome; the best
- —最終財final goods; final commodity; end product
- —最下層bottom layer; undermost layer; lowest (societal) class; bottom (economic) stratum; lowest caste
- —最外側outermost (side)
- —最確数most probable number; MPN
- —最高作magnum opus; (one's) best work
- —最接近closest approach
- —最晩年last years of one's life; very late in one's life
- —最新性up-to-dateness; currentness; currency
- —最低額minimum amount of money; minimum sum
- —最重度profound (of a disability, etc.); most severe
- —最初期earliest stage; very beginning; earliest phase; earliest days
- —最高値highest value; maximum value
- —最後方hindmost; outermost; farthest back
- —最適解optimal solution