Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
say
Parts:
Variants:
utmost, most, extreme
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
82 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 最 【サイ】 the most, the extreme, prime, conspicuous
  • 最悪 【サイアク】 worst, horrible, horrid, awful, terrible, in the worst case, if worst comes to worst

Kun reading compounds

  • 最も 【もっとも】 most, extremely
  • 最も近い共通祖先 【もっともちかいきょうつうそせん】 most recent common ancestor

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zui4
Korean:
choe

Spanish

  • prefijo para superlativo
  • más
  • sumamente
  • extremadamente

Portuguese

  • Capacidade máxima
  • maior
  • extremo

French

  • le plus
  • ultra-
  • extrême
402 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
510 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
484 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
121 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2146 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
291 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
612 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1742 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.11 Japanese for Busy People
263 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
263 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
439 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1000 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3120 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1599 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2181 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
829 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
14301 Morohashi
2472 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2492 New Nelson (John Haig)
821 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
884 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
99 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
587 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3867 2001 Kanji
4c8.10 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-8 SKIP code
6014.7 Four corner code
1-26-39 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6700 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
deep, heighten, intensify, strengthen
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
484 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 深刻 【シンコク】 serious, severe, grave, acute
  • 深海 【シンカイ】 deep sea, depths of the sea, ocean depths
  • 以深 【イシン】 ... or deeper, ... and below
  • 海深 【カイシン】 depth of the sea

Kun reading compounds

  • 深い 【ふかい】 deep, profound, dense, thick, close (relationship), intense, strong, late
  • 深入り 【ふかいり】 getting deeply involved, going deeply into, going too far (into something)
  • 深まる 【ふかまる】 to deepen, to heighten, to intensify
  • 深める 【ふかめる】 to deepen, to heighten, to intensify

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shen1
Korean:
sim

Spanish

  • profundo
  • hondo
  • profundizar
  • profundizar en

Portuguese

  • fundo
  • aumentar
  • intensificar
  • fortalecer

French

  • profond
  • augmenter
  • intensifier
  • renforcer
258 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
342 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
325 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
552 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2606 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
593 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
690 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1341 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
536 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
545 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
121 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1212 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
636 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
385 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
480 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1339 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17687 Morohashi
524 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3206 New Nelson (John Haig)
1328 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1426 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
424 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
377 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
364 2001 Kanji
3a8.21 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
3719.4 Four corner code
1-31-28 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6df1 Unicode hex code