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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
- —最初で最後first and last (time, chance, etc.); (the) only
- —初等幾何学elementary geometry
- —初心に返るto recall one's original purpose; to go back to one's original intention; to remember what state of mind one was in at first
- —初期選択項目initial choice
- —初期化コードinitialization code
- —初期連結集合initial link set
- —初心者マークnovice driver mark; beginner symbol; V-shaped green and yellow symbol that newly qualified drivers in Japan must display on their cars
- —初期メンバーfounding member (of a music group, etc.); initial member
- —初期臨床研修initial clinical training (two-year postgraduate residency for new doctors)
- —初期投資コストinitial investment cost
- —初期デフォルトinitial default
- —初心運転者標識beginner driver plate; V-shaped green and yellow symbol that newly qualified drivers in Japan must display on their cars
- —初回生産限定盤first-run limited edition production recording
- —初回仕様限定盤first-run limited edition technical recording
- —初生ひな鑑別師chicken sexer
- —初期キリスト教early Christianity; ante-Nicene era Christianity
- —初期エンドソームearly endosome
- —初期化プログラムinitial program
- —初心忘るべからずwe were all beginners once; never lose your humility; don't let success get to your head; don't forget where you came from
- —最初から最後までfrom beginning to end; from start to finish; from first to last; end-to-end; all the way through