| お食い初め | おくいぞめ | weaning ceremony/ |
| 為初め | しそめ
| outset/beginning/ |
| 為初める | しそめる
| (v1) to begin to do/ |
| 仮初 | かりそめ
| (io) (adj-na,n)
temporariness/transience/trifle/negligence/ |
| 仮初にも | かりそめにも
| (adv) for a moment/even as a joke/even in the
slightest degree/ |
| 仮初め | かりそめ | (adj-na,n)
temporariness/transience/trifle/negligence/ |
| 仮初めにも | かりそめにも
| (adv) for a moment/even as a joke/even in the
slightest degree/ |
| 業界初 | ぎょうかいはつ
| the industry's first .../ |
| 月初め | つきはじめ
| (adv,n) beginning of month/(P)/ |
| 見初める | みそめる
| (v1) to see for the first time/to fall in love
at first sight/ |
| 原初 | げんしょ | (n) origin(al)/source/first/ |
| 御食い初め | おくいぞめ | weaning ceremony/ |
| 最初 | さいしょ
| (adj-no,n-adv,n-t)
beginning/outset/first/onset/(P)/ |
| 最初の皿 | さいしょのさら
| first course/ |
| 咲き初める | さきそめる
| (v1) to begin to blossom/ |
| 手初めに | てはじめに
| at first/at the outset/beginning/ |
| 出初め | でぞめ
| (n,vs) debut/ |
| 出初め式 | でぞめしき | (n) New Year firefighters' event/ |
| 書き初め | かきぞめ
| (n) New Year's writing
(resolution)/(P)/ |
| 書初 | かきぞめ | (n) New Year's writing (resolution)/ |
| 書初め | かきぞめ
| (n) New Year's writing (resolution)/ |
| 食い初め | くいぞめ | (n) ceremony celebrating a baby's weaning/ |
| 太初 | たいしょ
| (n) beginning of the world/ |
| 弾き初め | ひきぞめ
| (n) initial playing of an instrument in the New
Year/ |
| 着初め | きぞめ | (n) first wearing (of new clothes)/ |
| 渡り初め | わたりぞめ
| (n) bridge-opening ceremony/first crossing of a
bridge/ |
| 当初 | とうしょ | (n-adv,n-t) at first/(P)/ |
| 馴れ初め | なれそめ | (n) start of a romance/beginning of love/ |
| 年初 | ねんしょ
| (n-adv,n) beginning of the year/New Year's
greetings/ |
| 年度初め | ねんどはじめ
| beginning of the (fiscal) year/ |
| 買い初め | かいぞめ
| (n) first purchase of the year/ |
| 本初 | ほんしょ
| (n-adv,n-t)
beginning/origin/start/ |
| 明け初める | あけそめる | to dawn/ |
| 明初 | めいしょ | first year of Meiji era/ |
| 恋い初める | こいそめる
| (v1) to begin to love/ |
Japanese - English dictionary courtesy of Jim Breen.
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