Illustration: At a children's puppet performance in a neighborhood community room, the little stage curtain has only just begun to open. A rabbit puppet pokes its head through the narrow central gap before the rest of the stage is revealed, its long ears comically caught against the fabric.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

始はじまり

hajimari

beginning, start

Example sentences

  1. 始はじまりがよければ半分はんぶんできたも同おなじ。

    Well begun is half done.

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  2. 議長ぎちょうは委員会いいんかいの始はじまりを告つげた。

    The chairman called the committee to order.

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  3. 宇宙うちゅうの始はじまりは何なにですか。

    What is the origin of the universe?

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Kanji in 始

  • 始commence; beginOnシKunはじめる・はじまる

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