Kanji1 / 8
始 kanji
commence, begin
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
シ
Kun readings
はじめる-はじめるはじまる
Variant forms
乨兘Words with 始
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —始新世Eocene epoch
- —行始端home position of line
- —再始動restarting (a machine, engine, project, etc.); resuming
- —始端部leader
- —組始端first character position of line
- —原始元primitive element (of a finite field)
- —年始着New Year's clothes
- —起始点origin (of an artery, nerve, etc.); starting point
- —始状態initial state
- —一部始終full particulars; all the details; the whole story; everything (about); from beginning to end
- —原始教会the early church; the primitive church
- —原始時代primitive times
- —原始動物protozoa
- —終始一貫consistently; unchangingly; throughout
- —年始回りNew Year's calls
- —更始一新undergo a complete change; turn over a new leaf
- —年末年始year-end and New Year holidays (e.g. from December 29 to January 3)
- —無始無終everlastingness; eternity
- —開始タグbeginning tag; starting tag; opening tag
- —開始変数starting variable; SV