Tonada

Japanese word

最初

さいしょ
In your course · Chapter 10
Part of speech
adverb
Level
A2
Frequency
No. 209 in the course corpus

Meanings

  1. first; beginning
  2. beginning
  3. outset
  4. first
  5. onset

Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))

Kanji

  • 最
    On reading:
    サイ、シュ
    Kun reading:
    つま、もっと.も
    Meanings:
    utmost, most, extreme
  • 初
    On reading:
    ショ
    Kun reading:
    -そ.める、-ぞ.め、うい-、はじ.め、はじ.めて、はつ、はつ-
    Meanings:
    first time, beginning

Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))

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