Chinese mnemonics and annotator
Matthews
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最 zuì utmost
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#421
Chapter-24 HSK-A
12 strokes
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Compositions
Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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Tsui is composed of 冃 mao an old word for a hat, as radical, over 取 ch'ü to take. It originally meant to seize, to collect; and from the idea of collecting many came its modern sense as a superlative. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
最
㝡
zuì
variant of 最[zui4]
最
冣
zuì
old variant of 最[zui4]
最
zuì
most/the most/-est (superlative suffix)