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First opened Thursday, June 11, 2020

始めに

はじめに

Pitch accent: We don't have the data for this section. No accent list gives this spelling and reading, or the two we check against disagree.

to begin with, first of all

JLPT N2Commonexpressions (phrases, clauses, etc.)和語 · Native Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 始

In a sentence

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What Wiktionary says

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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.

Also read はじめに

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • 始めにThis word

    to begin with, first of all

    No pitch accent shown

  • 初めに

    to begin with, first of all

    No pitch accent shown

Also opened on June 11

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.

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