Illustration: In a Japanese community theater’s costume room, a performer stands beneath a low horizontal fitting bar that must touch the top of a tall character hat. A costumer slides the thinnest available wooden shoe lift beneath the performer’s feet, bringing the hat into exact contact with the bar.

JLPT N2no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

最さい低てい限げん

saiteigen

minimum

Example sentences

  1. 最低限さいていげんの手入ていれで、ちゃんと育そだつ植物しょくぶつもあります。

    Some plants grow well with a minimum of care.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. しかし警備けいびは最低限さいていげんのものであり、市内しないは平素へいそと変かわらなかった。

    However, since the scale of guard was kept at the minimum, the city looked as usual.

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

  3. その補強ほきょうもあり、2008年ねん11月がつ30日にちの大宮おおみやアルディージャ戦せんに引ひき分わけ、J1残留ざんりゅうという最低限さいていげんの目標もくひょうを達成たっせいした。

    It might be considered the result of reinforcement that the team drew the game with Omiya Ardija on November 30, 2008, and achieved the minimum aim of remaining in J1.

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

Kanji in 最低限

  • 最utmost; mostOnサイ・シュKunもっとも・つま
  • 低lower; shortOnテイKunひくい・ひくめる・ひくまる
  • 限limit; restrictOnゲンKunかぎる・かぎり

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