Japanese word
最近
さいきん
In your course · Chapter 20
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- A2
- Frequency
- No. 249 in the course corpus
Meanings
- recently
- lately
- these days
- nowadays
- right now
- nearest
- closest
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 最
- On reading:
- サイ、シュ
- Kun reading:
- つま、もっと.も
- Meanings:
- utmost, most, extreme
- 近
- On reading:
- キン、コン
- Kun reading:
- ちか.い
- Meanings:
- near, early, akin, tantamount
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))