First opened Saturday, February 28, 2009
これから
これから
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from now on, after this
これから is literally “[starting] from this”.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Literally, "[starting] from this".”
Source: Wiktionary: これから (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.