Illustration: At a neighborhood planting day, an elderly resident settles the very first seedling into a long prepared flowerbed. Immediately behind her, the next volunteer lowers a second seedling, while others wait with identical small pots beside a continuing row of empty planting holes.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

皮かわ切きり

kawakiri

beginning, starting point

Usually used as …を皮切りに. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. それを皮切かわきりとして欧州おうしゅうの詩しや文学ぶんがくを多数紹介たすうしょうかいするようになりました。

    With that as a start many European poems and much literature came to be introduced.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. また、讃岐さぬきうどん風ふうのうどんを供きょうするチェーン店てんが2002年ねんに首都圏しゅとけんに開店かいてんしたのを皮切かわきりに日本各地にっぽんかくちで次々つぎつぎとオープンした。

    Moreover, branch shops serving Sanuki Udon-styled Udon noodles successively started business after the first opening in the national capital region in 2002.

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

  3. またアメリカ合衆国がっしゅうこくのフロリダに苗木なえぎが送おくられたのを皮切かわきりに北米ほくべいや朝鮮ちょうせんにも輸出ゆしゅつされる様ようになり、海外かいがいへの展開てんかいも始はじまった。

    Starting with the seedling exports to Florida, USA, it began to export unshu mikan to North America and Korea and oversea deployment started in full swing.

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

Kanji in 皮切

  • 皮pelt; skinOnヒKunかわ
  • 切cutOnセツ・サイKunきる・きり・きれる

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