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JLPT N1no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

最さい先せん端たん

saisentan

cutting edge, state of the art

Example sentences

  1. そして常つねに時代じだいの最先端さいせんたんを吸収きゅうしゅうしていくことを心掛こころがける。

    At the same time he decided to never stop absorbing cutting-edge information.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 後のちになっていわゆる民生用みんせいようも誕生たんじょうするオープンリール・テープレコーダーであるが、この時期じきはまだ業務用ぎょうむようとして最先端さいせんたんの機器ききであり非常ひじょうに高価こうかなものであった。

    Although consumer open reel tape recorders were produced later, it was the state-of-the-art equipment for professional use, and therefore it was very expensive at the time.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 身近みぢかなものでありながら、さまざまな不思議ふしぎに満みちた「光ひかり」をテーマにしており、光ひかりの不思議ふしぎを体験たいけんし、光ひかりの基本的きほんてきな性質せいしつから最先端さいせんたんの光ひかりの利用技術りようぎじゅつまで、楽たのしみながら学まなぶことができる。

    This museum takes up as a theme 'Light' which is something familiar to human beings but full of wide-ranging wonders, so everybody can experience wonders of the light and enjoy and learn the basic nature of the light to the state-of-the-art technologies that utilize the light.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 最先端

  • 最utmost; mostOnサイ・シュKunもっとも・つま
  • 先before; aheadOnセンKunさき・まず
  • 端edge; originOnタンKunはし・は・はた

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