Illustration: At a Japanese apartment breakfast counter, a parent and child use a homemade monthly tracker with thirty recessed spaces arranged in three rows of ten. The entire top row contains small wooden discs; both lower rows remain empty.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

初しょ旬じゅん

shojun

first ten days of a month

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしは6月ろくがつ初旬しょじゅんにトロントに来きたものです。

    I came to Toronto at the beginning of June.

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  2. 展示品てんじひんの入いれ替かえは、毎年まいとし7月中旬がつちゅうじゅんから8月がつ初旬しょじゅんに行おこなわれる。

    Some of the items on exhibit are changed from the mid July to the early August every year.

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

  3. 七月しちがつ初旬しょじゅん、玉鬘たまかずらのもとを訪おとずれた光源氏ひかるげんじは、琴きんを枕まくらにして彼女かのじょと寄より添そう。

    In early July, Hikaru Genji visited Tamakazura and nestled beside her, using a koto as a pillow.

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

Kanji in 初旬

  • 初first time; beginningOnショKunはじめ・はじめて・はつ
  • 旬decameron; ten-day periodOnジュン・シュン

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