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
- —初期刊本incunabulum
- —初期故障initial failure
- —初期状態initial state; initial condition
- —初期不良initial defect
- —初度適用first-time adoption; initial application (e.g. of a new technology)
- —初号試写first screening; preview of movie
- —新婚初夜wedding night
- —当初予算initial budget; original budget
- —初動対応initial response
- —初動対処initial response
- —初等関数elementary function
- —初転法輪setting in motion the wheel of the dharma; the first turning of the wheel
- —初頭効果primacy effect
- —初期メンfounding member (of a music group, etc.); initial member
- —初日を出すto achieve one's first victory after a string of losses
- —本初子午線prime meridian
- —再初期設定reinitialization
- —年初来高値yearly high (stocks)
- —初日が出るto achieve one's first victory after a string of losses
- —初歩の初歩absolute basics; very rudiments