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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 all 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.)]
呢個實驗最緊要係記性 粵
It's vital to remember what you're doing in this experiment. [Lit. this [counter] experiment[,] most important is memory Translated more directly: "the most important thing about this experiment is memory", but I don't think that's what's meant since the context is a chemistry experiment rather than psychology.]
獵豹係世界上跑得最快嘅動物 粵
The cheetah is the fastest animal in the world. [Lit. cheetah is world-on run-manner most fast [possessive particle] animal]
喺香港,我最怕嘅就係畀蚊咬 粵
In Hong Kong, I'm most scared of being bitten. [Lit. Hong Kong, I most scared [possessive particle] exactly is by mosquitoes bite. This sentence is topicalised: the topic (Hong Kong) is introduced at the start. Also, note the phrase 最怕嘅; the 嘅 turns it into a noun phrase.]
漢字是歷史上最古老的文字之一，大概四千歲了。 國
Chinese characters are one of history's most ancient writing scripts, approximately four thousand years old.
捉棋嘅時候最憎人係度依牙鬆槓 粵
It irritates me when people around me are giving all sorts of comments while I am playing chess.
我想學好講嘢先。當我講得好嘅時候，就會開始學寫。而家，我只係想留到最後先至學寫。 粵
I want to learn to speak first . When I can speak well, then I'll learn to write. For now, I just want to leave the writing until last. [copied from [url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?7,91899,91899#msg-91899]this thread.[/url]]
兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買嗰件衫，我攞咗佢去熨。 粵
I took the shirts that I bought two weeks ago at my favourite shop to be ironed. [Note: although the verb and object could be separated by the lengthy adjective clause 兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買, it's more natural and more easily understood use the topicalised construction in this example.]
喪事最重要部份叫喪禮 粵
The most important part after a person dies is called the funeral. [Lit. Death-matters most important part call funeral]
我攞咗兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買嗰件衫去熨 粵
I've taken the shirt that I bought in my favourite clothes shop two weeks ago to be ironed. [[literal] I taken-have two-weeks-ago in my most-like that-(classifier)-clothes-shop buy that-(classifier)-shirt go iron This Cantonese example shows how a relative clause is composed without a relative pronoun. ] |
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