Kanji1 / 7
初 kanji
first time, beginning
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
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Kun readings
はじめはじめてはつはつ-うい--そめる-ぞめ
Words with 初
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —太初beginning of the world
- —初口beginning
- —初生firstborn; first-produced; newborn
- —初号first number (e.g. issue of a magazine); No. 1 type
- —初見seeing for the first time; first sight; first meeting; sight-reading
- —初発start; first departure
- —初速initial velocity
- —初経menarche; first menstruation
- —初診initial medical examination; first visit (to a doctor, clinic, hospital, etc.)
- —初更first watch of the night (approx. 7pm to 9pm)
- —初葉beginning of an epoch; initial period
- —本初beginning; origin; start
- —明初first year of Meiji era
- —初刷first print (run); first print of the new year (esp. newspaper printed on January 1)
- —初祖the first generation of a family; school (of thought) or religious sect
- —初編volume one; first volume
- —初座first half of a tea ceremony (in which the charcoal is set and light food served)
- —初度first-time; initial
- —初会meeting for the first time; first meeting
- —初月first month of the lunar calendar; first month; first moon of the month; new moon