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Kanji for Beginning
The kanji for “beginning” is 始, read shi and written in 8 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
始
beginning
The beginning of something new.
8 strokes On reading シ (shi) Kun reading はじめる、はじまる (hajimeru, hajimaru) JLPT N3
Dictionary meanings: commence, begin
Readings used for names on Nazuke: shi
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