Illustration: On the balcony of a Japanese apartment, a gardener kneels beside a nursery tray of beans that have only just germinated. Most compartments show split seed coats and pale hooks pushing through the soil; a few seedlings have opened their first paired seed leaves.

JLPT N2no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

初しょ期き

shoki

initial, early

Example sentences

  1. 初期しょき設定せっていのまま使つかってるの？

    Are you using the default settings?

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  2. 初期しょき費用ひようの高たかさがハードルになる。

    The initial cost is a hurdle.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. その病気びょうきの初期しょき症状しょうじょうは高熱こうねつとのどの痛いたみです。

    The initial symptoms of the disease are fever and sore throat.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 初期

  • 初first time; beginningOnショKunはじめ・はじめて・はつ
  • 期period; timeOnキ・ゴ

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