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最 — to the highest degree; most ...

to the highest degree; most ...; -est

Pinyin
zuì
Strokes
12
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 最: 12 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

最 — 12 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 最 in the HSK syllabus: 7

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 最zuìto the highest degree; most ...; -estHSK 2
  2. 最好zuìhǎobest; had better ...; it would be best to ...HSK 3
  3. 最后zuìhòufinal; last; ultimate; finally; in the endHSK 3
  4. 最近zuìjìnrecently; soon; nearestHSK 3
  5. 最终zuìzhōngfinal; ultimateHSK 4
  6. 最初zuìchūfirst; primary; initial; original; at firstHSK 5
  7. 最佳zuìjiāoptimum; optimal; peak; bestHSK 5

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.