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最

最

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

最 (radical 13 冂+10, 12 strokes, cangjie input 日尸十水 (ASJE), four-corner 60147, composition ⿱日取)

References

  • KangXi: page 503, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14301
  • Dae Jaweon: page 877, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1516, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6700

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 最

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (取) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
陬 *ʔsloː, *ʔsru, *ʔslo
棷 *ʔsloː, *sʰloːʔ, *sloːʔ, *ʔsru
掫 *ʔsloː, *ʔsruʔ, *ʔslo
緅 *ʔsloː, *ʔsru, *slos
趣 *sʰloːʔ, *sʰlos
取 *sʰloːʔ, *sʰloʔ
鯫 *zloː, *zloːʔ, *sʰlo
棸 *rlu, *rluʔ, *ʔsru
鄹 *ʔsru, *zloʔ, *ljoːnʔ
郰 *ʔsru
齱 *ʔsru, *sʰroːɡ
菆 *ʔsru, *sʰros, *zloːn
箃 *ʔsru
黀 *ʔsru
驟 *zrus
最 *zloːds
襊 *sʰoːds, *sʰoːd
蕞 *zoːds
嘬 *sʰroːds
諏 *ʔslo
娵 *ʔslo
娶 *sʰloʔ, *sʰlos, *slo
聚 *zloʔ, *zlos
埾 *zlos
藂 *zloːŋ
叢 *zloːŋ
繓 *ʔsoːd
撮 *ʔsoːd, *sʰoːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zloːds) : semantic 曰 + phonetic 取 ‎(OC *sʰloːʔ, *sʰloʔ).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 最
Mandarin Beijing /t͡suei⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡suei⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡suei⁵³/
Jinan /t͡suei²¹/
Qingdao /t͡sue²¹³/
Zhengzhou /t͡suei³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡suei⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡suɨ²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡suei¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡suei¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡suei²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡sei³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡suei¹³/
Guiyang /t͡suei²¹³/
Kunming /t͡suei²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡suəi⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡se⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡suei⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡suei³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡suei⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡se³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡se̞⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /t͡sz̩ʷei⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡sai⁴²/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕye³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡sə⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sei⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡səi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sui⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sui⁵³/
Taoyuan /t͡sui⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡søy³³/
Nanning /t͡sui³³/
Hong Kong /t͡søy³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sue²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sɔy²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡suɛ⁴²/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sue²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡sui³⁵/
Rime
Character 最
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 泰 (26)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 祖外切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡suɑiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʷɑiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡suɑiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡swajH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡suɑiH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡suɑiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡suɑiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zuì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 最
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zuì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tswajH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]ˤot-s/
English collect; most

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 最
Reading # 1/1
No. 10645
Phonetic
component		 取
Rime
group		 祭
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 最
Old
Chinese		 /*zloːds/

Definitions

最

  1. most; -est
    最佳  ―  zuìjiā  ―  optimal
  2. the most ... thing; the best
    世界之最  ―  shìjiè zhīzuì  ―  records of the world

Compounds

  • 最終／最终 (zuìzhōng)
  • 最近 (zuìjìn)
  • 最速件
  • 最適化／最适化
  • 最高法院
  • 最高當局／最高当局
  • 為善最樂／为善最乐

Japanese

Kanji

最

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Proper noun

最 ‎(hiragana かなめ, romaji Kaname)

  1. A male given name [2]

Etymology 2

Proper noun

最 ‎(hiragana さい, romaji Sai)

  1. A female given name

Prefix

最 ‎(hiragana さい, romaji sai-)

  1. most, greatest

References

  1. ↑ 女の子の名前辞書 - Name Catalogue (Girls only), Retrieved 6 May 2013
  2. ↑ 赤ちゃんの名前 好感度調査 - Baby Name Catalogue, Retrieved 6 May 2013

Korean

Hanja

最 • ‎(choe) (hangeul 최, revised choe, McCune-Reischauer ch'oe, Yale choy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

最 (tối, tíu, tụi, tếu)

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