初

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

初 (radical 18 刀+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 中尸竹 (LSH), four-corner 3722₀)

1. beginning, initial, primary

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 137, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1911
• Dae Jaweon: page 310, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 327, character 22
• Unihan data for U+521D

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

初 (Yale cho1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

初 (grade 4 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: しょ (sho), そ (so)
• Kun: はじめ (hajime), はつ (hatsu), うい (ui)

[edit] Compounds

• 初めて (はじめて, hajimete) for the first time
• 初雪 (はつゆき, hatsuyuki) the first snow
• 初心 (しょしん, shoshin) original intention
• 初心者 (しょしんしゃ, shoshinsha) beginner
• 最初 (さいしょ, saisho) first
• 初速度 (しょそくど, shosokudo) initial velocity
• 初夏 (しょか, shoka) the beginning of summer
• 初春 (しょしゅん, shoshun) the beginning of spring
• 初秋 (しょしゅう, shoshū) the beginning of autumn
• 初冬 (しょとう, shotō) the beginning of winter
• 初誕生 (はつたんじょう, hatsutanjō) first birthday

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

初 (hangeul 초, revised cho, McCune-Reischauer ch'o)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

初 (pinyin chū (chu1), Wade-Giles ch'u¹)

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

初 (*chriu)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

初 (sơ, thơ, xưa, xơ)