Illustration: At a neighborhood gift-wrapping workshop, three ribbons of identical width lie straight beside one another on a worktable, with their near ends carefully aligned against the same wooden edge. Their far ends stop at clearly different distances.

JLPT N2no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

最さい短たん

saitan

shortest

Example sentences

  1. 駅えきまで最短さいたんルートで行いったんだ。

    We took the shortest way to the station.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. それはボストンまでの最短さいたんルートです。

    It’s the shortest route to Boston.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 世界せかい最短さいたんの詩しである。

    It is the shortest form of poetry in the world.

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

Kanji in 最短

  • 最utmost; mostOnサイ・シュKunもっとも・つま
  • 短short; brevityOnタンKunみじかい

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