始 — commence, begin

し始 commence

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes calendar action

U+59CB Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #244 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #809 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

commence
begin

word

し shi On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

始(し) shi beginning 開(かい) 始(し) kaishi start 終(しゅう) 始(し) shuushi from beginning to end 原(げん) 始(し) genshi primitive 始(し) 動(どう) shidou starting 始(し) 末(まつ) shimatsu management 年末(まつ) 年(ねん) 始(し) nenmatsunenshi New Year period 創(そう) 始(し) soushi founding

はじ haji Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

始(はじ) める hajimeru to begin 始(はじ) まる hajimaru to begin 始(はじ) まり hajimari beginning 始(はじ) め hajime beginning

Appears in idioms

一部始終四字熟語

one, department, commence, end

終始一貫四字熟語

end, commence, one, pierce

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

おんな女 woman #38

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#38 女 woman