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Kanji Detail for 始 - "to begin, to start, first"

始

  • Meaning

    始 means "to begin, to start, first."

    1. Begin - To start; to commence.

    2. Start - The beginning; the origin.

    3. First - The initial; the earliest.

  • Words using 始

    • 開始 かいし Listen start; commencement; beginning
    • 終始 しゅうし Listen beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end
    • 年始 ねんし Listen beginning of the year; new year; New Year's call
    • 始め はじめ Listen beginning; start; outset
    • 原始 げんし Listen origin; beginning; genesis
    • 始発 しはつ Listen first departure (of the day); first train; first bus
    • 手始め てはじめ Listen outset; start; beginning
    • 創始 そうし Listen creation; founding; initiating

  • Four-character idioms with 始

    • 一部始終 いちぶしじゅう Listen full particulars; all the details; the whole story
    • 終始一貫 しゅうしいっかん Listen consistently; unchangingly; throughout
    • 無始無終 むしむしゅう Listen everlastingness; eternity

  • Tattoo check: 始

    • Verified meaning: to begin, to start, first
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read はじむ, はじめ)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 始

    Given names 始(はじむ)Listen 始(はじめ)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    commence; begin

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    begin, start; then, only then

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to begin; to start; then; only then

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to begin, to start; beginning

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Opposite of 終 (end). Beginning. (Great Learning) "Things have roots and branches; affairs have endings and beginnings." | A grammatical particle. 未始 is like saying "never."

  • Onyomi

    tip

    shi(シ) シ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    haji.meru(はじ-める) はじ-める

    hajimaru(はじ-まる) はじ-まる

  • Strokes

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    8 strokes

  • Radical

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    女 (onna・onnahen)

  • Related Keywords

    begin start first activate initiate origin commence launch genesis inception onset outset inaugurate embark introduce open morning

Sentences including 始

  • Their baby has just started to crawl.

  • When does the show start?

  • War suddenly broke out.

  • School will open on monday.

  • The question is when to start.

  • Start reading where you left off.

  • The summer vacation begins in july.

  • As soon as we reached there , it began to rain.

  • They began to sail to their home.

  • I thought rain was beginning to fall.

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