初
Stroke Order
Meanings
- first time
- beginning
On'yomi (音読み)
- ショ
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
- はじ.め
- はじ.めて
- はつ
- はつ-
- うい-
- -そ.める
- -ぞ.め
- Strokes
- 7
- JLPT Level
- N3
- Frequency
- #89
- School Grade
- Grade 4
- Radical
- 刀#18 · knife
Components
- 衤
- 刀
Common Words
- 初演しょえんNounfirst performance, premiere
- 初夏しょかNounearly summer
- 初回しょかいNounfirst time, first innings, initial attempt
- 初期しょきNounearly days, early years, early stages, initial stages, beginning
- 初級しょきゅうNounelementary level, beginner level
- 初詣はつもうでNounfirst shrine visit of the New Year
- 初出しょしゅつNounfirst appearance
- 初旬しょじゅんAdverbfirst 10 days of the month
Practice in Kanjiru
Write 初 by hand (opens in new tab)Data: KANJIDIC2, JMdict & KRADFILE (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0) · KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0) · kanji-frequency (CC BY 4.0)