Illustration: In a small municipal theatre, the stage curtain rises for the beginning of a community performance. The audience has settled into its seats, and a conductor lifts a baton toward musicians ready to play their first notes.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

開かい幕まく

kaimaku

to open, to begin

Used for the start of an event or season. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 開幕かいまくまで一週間いちしゅうかんある。

    There is one week until the opening.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. 同おなじく1993年ねんには日本初にっぽんはつのプロサッカーリーグ・Jリーグが開幕かいまくし、日本中にっぽんじゅうが空前くうぜんのJリーグブームに沸わき上あがった。

    In the same year, 1993, the J. League, the first professional football league in Japan, began and a boom in soccer occurred all over Japan.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 初はじめてのJ2となった2001年ねん、3月がつ10日かの開幕かいまくから11月がつ18日にちの最終戦さいしゅうせんまで選手せんしゅの途中入団とちゅうにゅうだん・退団たいだんが一切いっさいなかった。

    In 2001 when the club was promoted to J2 for the first time, absolutely no player joined nor left midway from the opening game on March 10 to the final game on November 18.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 開幕

  • 開open; unfoldOnカイKunひらく・ひらき・ひらける
  • 幕curtain; buntingOnマク・バクKunとばり

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