最も

Japanese

Kanji in this term
最
もっと Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) もっとも [móꜜttòmò] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
(Tokyo) もっとも [mòttóꜜmò] (Nakadaka – [3])[2]
IPA^(key): [mo̞t̚to̞mo̞]

Adverb

最(もっと)も • (mottomo)

most, -est
- 1904, 河口慧海, チベット旅行記:
  例(れい)の美(うつく)しい小僧(こぞう)が最(もっと)も忙(いそが)しく最(もっと)も収入(しゅうにゅう)の多(おお)い時(とき)だそうです。
  Rei no utsukushii kozō ga mottomo isogashiku mottomo shūnyū no ōi toki da sō desu.
  It's apparently when that handsome youngster is the most busy and has the largest earnings.

Synonyms

一番(いちばん) (ichiban)

Related terms

尤(もっと)も (mottomo, “although; plausible, natural; naturally, for good reason”)
もっと (motto, “more”)

References

1960, Tetsuo Hirayama (平山輝男, editor), 全国アクセント辞典 (Zenkoku Akusento Jiten, “Nationwide Accent Dictionary”), (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō, →ISBN
2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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