Meanings

Beginning

Radicals

聿

⿱⿰户攵聿

Stroke 0 / 14

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

2 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

3 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

4 diagonal top-to-bottom

5 diagonal right-to-left

6 horizontal right-to-left

7 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

8 diagonal right-to-left

9 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

10 horizontal bottom-to-top

11 horizontal bottom-to-top

12 horizontal bottom-to-top

13 horizontal bottom-to-top

14 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

チョウ chou

ジョウ jou

トウ tou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

はじめ hajime

はじ haji

4 words total

Other (4 words)

founding of a state

beginning of the year

establishment

first emperor to rule the land (title of Emperor Sujin)