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
ショ
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
- —初動initial response (e.g. to a crisis); action in the earliest stages; initial shock (of an earthquake); preliminary tremor
- —初句first five syllables (of a tanka); first line (of a poem)
- —初品initial parts; first article; first off-tool parts (from a manufacturing process)
- —初表first page of a renga or renku
- —初参being in someone's service for the first time; participating for the first time; visiting a shrine (or temple) for the first time
- —初項first term (e.g. of sequence); initial term
- —初給starting salary; initial payment
- —初語first word (of an infant)
- —初学learning (a subject) for the first time; start of one's study
- —初稿first draft; first proof
- —初訳first translation
- —初任first appointment (to a post)
- —初刊first publication
- —初電first train (of the day); first telegram (about a particular topic)
- —期初start of a period (esp. financial); beginning of a term
- —初世first generation; founder
- —月初beginning of the month
- —初便first flight; maiden voyage; first letter; first correspondence
- —初列primary (feathers); primaries; first row; first rank; front line
- —初報first report; initial report; first news