# 最 — Most

Frequency rank 90 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Common in published Japanese. A handful of these and real text starts to open.

More common than 考 (Think), less common than 現 (Present Time).

- On’yomi: さい
- Kun’yomi: もっと
- Radical: 冂 Wide (Kangxi 13)
- Frequency path: Level I of XX
- School grade: 4
- Strokes: 12

Pies are stacked on a scale until one final pie sits above all the others.

In words:

- 最初 さいしょ — beginning,first
- 最近 さいきん — latest,nowadays
- 最後 さいご — last,end

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