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
- —初撃first attack; first strike; first blow
- —初学者beginning student; beginner
- —初期化initialization (of a variable); initialisation; formatting (a disk); initialization; initialization (of a device); (factory) reset; reprogramming
- —初期値initial value; initial condition; IV; initializing value; default value
- —初産婦primipara; woman giving birth for the first time
- —初七日memorial service held on the seventh day following a person's death
- —初一念original intention
- —初生児newborn baby
- —初年兵new or raw recruit
- —初等科elementary course
- —初診料fee for an initial medical examination
- —初犯者first offender; first-time offender
- —初年度first year; initial (year)
- —初っ端(very) beginning; start
- —初歩的elementary; basic; rudimentary
- —初期点initial point
- —初級者beginner; novice; neophyte
- —初生値initial ratio
- —原初的early; primitive; primordial
- —初鳴日first day (in the year) that a particular species of bird or insect, etc. sing or chirp