JLPT
N4
始
Strokes
8
Grade
3
Meanings
Begincommencebegin
Unicode
59CB
Kunyomi
はじ
haji
Onyomi
シ
shi
Vocabulary (12)
始生代
しせいだい
Archaeozoic (Archeozoic) Era
始新世
ししんせい
Eocene epoch
元始祭
げんしさい
Festival of Origins (January 3)
講書始
こうしょはじめ
Imperial New Year's Lectures (ceremony in which the emperor and members of the imperial family Their Majesties listen to expert lectures in the fields of human, social and natural sciences)
始めに言葉ありき
はじめにことばありき
In the beginning was the Word
始まらない
はじまらない
It's no use
年始回り
ねんしまわり
New Year's calls
年始状
ねんしじょう
New Year's card
年始着
ねんしぎ
New Year's clothes
元始天尊
げんしてんそん
Yuanshi Tianzun (one of the supreme divinities of Taoism)
始め良ければ終わり良し
はじめよければおわりよし
a good beginning makes a good ending
千里の行も足下に始まる
せんりのこうもそっかにはじまる
a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step