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most; extremely; exceedingly; extreme; superlative Stroke count: 12
Level: 3
Radical: 冂 (#13)
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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最大
zeoi3 daai6 = biggest
最多
zeoi3 do1 = the most (in quantity)
最高
zeoi3 gou1 = tallest; highest
最好
zeoi3 hou2 = best
最後
zeoi3 hau6 = last; finally; at last
最近
zeoi3 gan6 = recently
最早
zeoi3 zou2 = at the earliest
最尾
zeoi3 mei5*1 = final; last place
最初
zeoi3 co1 = at first; earliest
最佳
zeoi3 gaai1 = optimum, optimal, peakSee all 60 compounds (CantoDict reports 62 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations) |
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Showing 10 of 26 examples containing 最
佢哋最後喺返埋一齊 粵
They recently got back together. [最後 implies something that happened recently - in this context, probably days or at most a month.]
廁所魔鏡，世間上邊個最靚？ 粵
Mirror mirror on the washroom wall, who's the fairest one of all? [Lit. toilet magic-mirror, world on which-one most pretty?]
啱啱收到現場最新嘅消息 粵
We've just received an on-the-spot update. [Lit. just now receive on-the-spot most new [possessive particle] news. Std. Chinese: 剛剛收到現場最新的消息. (Heard this sentence on a news report.)] |
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Decimal representation of this word: 最
Unicode code for this character: U+6700 (off-site link)
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