Illustration: On a neighborhood shopping street, a small wooden tofu shop stands between progressively newer concrete storefronts. Its owner holds open an old photograph album for a child at the entrance.

JLPT N1no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

最さい古こ

saiko

oldest, earliest

Example sentences

それは現存げんそんする最古さいこの木造建築もくぞうけんちくである。
It is the oldest wooden building in existence.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
日本にっぽん最古さいこの映画会社えいがかいしゃのひとつである。
It is one of the oldest film companies in Japan.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
この際さいの用例ようれいが現存げんそん最古さいこのものとされる。
This example is considered to be the oldest one in existence.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 最古

最utmost; mostOnサイ・シュKunもっとも・つま
古oldOnコKunふるい・ふる-

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