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JLPT N3 SL4 7 strokes Frequency: #152

Meanings

First Time, Beginning

Radicals

Decomposition

⿰衤刀

Etymology

Ideographic: Cutting 刀 the cloth 衤 is the first step in making clothes

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 7

Stroke Order

1 dot right-to-left
2 corner left-to-right
3 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left
4 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left
5 dot bottom-right-to-top-left
6 hook bottom-right-to-top-left
7 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ショ sho
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
はつ hatsu
はじ haji