初

Vocabulary (12)

• 人生初

  じんせいはつ

  (for the) first time in one's life

• 今年初

  ことしはつ

  (for the) first time this year

• 夏初月

  なつはづき

  4th month of the lunar calendar

• 初音ミク

  はつねミク

  Hatsune Miku (Vocaloid software)

• 出初め式

  でぞめしき

  New Year firefighters' event

• 初日

  はつひ

  New Year's Day sunrise

• 初場所

  はつばしょ

  New Year's Tournament (held in Tokyo in January)

• 鍬初め

  くわはじめ

  New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction

• 初節供

  はつぜっく

  baby's first annual festival

• 初心者

  しょしんしゃ

  beginner

• 初口

  しょくち

  beginning

• 初頭

  しょとう

  beginning (of a century, etc.)