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starting variable; SV

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source module; compilation unit

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source document type (of a link)

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source element type (of a link)

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name start character

Proverb

a good beginning makes a good ending

initial cell

Proverb

a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

ceremony on the fifth day of the 10th lunar month in which the emperor would watch prize archery (Heian and Kamakura periods)

first firing of the bow (after the New Year or the reconstruction of the archery range (in military families))

Proverb; From The Classic of Filial Piety

filial piety begins with not harming one's own body (as one's entire body was given by one's parents)

Astronomy

protoplanetary disk

Legend

first emperor to rule the land (title bestowed upon Emperor Jimmu on his coronation)

Astronomy

protoplanet

end-of-the-year holidays

Proverb

even siblings turn into strangers

Historical term

ceremony in which an abdicated emperor puts on informal court clothes (i.e. a kariginu and eboshi) for the first time

Rare term

New Year's clothes

Proverb; Rare term

birth is the beginning of death

Buddhism

beginninglessness

Archaic

distant past

Nidan verb (lower class)

to start; to begin; to commence; to initiate; to originate