初

Sumo

to achieve one's first victory after a string of losses

Abbreviation; Colloquial

founding member (of a music group, etc.); initial member

initial costs; up-front costs; front-end costs; start-up costs

Mathematics

elementary geometry

to make light of; to treat lightly; to slight; to neglect

beginner-friendly; (intended) for beginners; aimed at beginners

to recall one's original purpose; to go back to one's original intention; to remember what state of mind one was in at first

Full name of a particular person

Ohatsu and Tokubei (lovers who committed suicide together in 1703)

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (play by Chikamatsu)

Historical term

early Christianity; ante-Nicene era Christianity

Obsolete term

innocent; pure; naive; unsophisticated

Rare term

the first generation of a family; school (of thought) or religious sect

Abbreviation; Obsolete term; Abbr. of 明治初年

first year of Meiji era

Rare term

first sound of the year for an animal; first sound of the season

Rare term

first fish of the year

Rare term

first young greens of the year

Rare term

learning something new; studying for the first time

Rare term

first house-cleaning of the year (on January 2); first sweeping

to fall in love at first sight

Archaic

to see for the first time; to meet for the first time

Archaic

to have sexual relations for the first time

first dream of the New year (believed to foretell one's luck)

Archaic

dream on the night of setsubun

Archaic; Noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru

crowning a boy for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony

ういかんむり only

noh cap with a rolled or drooping tail (indicative of nobility)

first watch of the night (approx. 7pm to 9pm)

meeting one's master for the first time (of a new servant); ceremony at which a new servant has his first audience with his new master

the first rain to fall between the late autumn and the early winter

first wind of the season (esp. the first wind of autumn)