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Chinese symbol for “minimum”

最少
zuì shǎo
at least; minimum; lowest (amount); minimal

The closest CC-CEDICT match for minimum is 最少 (zuì shǎo), defined as: at least; minimum; lowest (amount); minimal.

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Characters and stroke order

最 zuì
most, extremely, exceedingly; superlative
radical 13 ⼌ · 12 strokes
少 shǎo
few, little; less; inadequate
radical 42 ⼩ · 4 strokes

Other Chinese words for “minimum”

WordPinyinMeaning
最小值zuì xiǎo zhíleast value; minimum

Related words

Other words that share a character with 最少.

WordPinyinMeaning
最后 (最後)zuì hòufinal; last; ultimate; finally; in the end
最高zuì gāotallest; highest
最近zuì jìnrecently; soon
最终 (最終)zuì zhōngfinal; ultimate
最好zuì hǎobest; had better ...; it would be best to ...
最佳zuì jiāoptimum; optimal
多少duō shǎonumber; amount; somewhat
减少 (減少)jiǎn shǎoto lessen; to decrease; to reduce; to lower

See also: Japanese symbol for “minimum”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.