There are 8 total results for your 初めに search.
| Characters | Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
初めに see styles |
hajimeni はじめに |
(expression) (1) first; firstly; first of all; to begin with; in the beginning; at the beginning; (2) (kana only) Introduction; Preface |
手初めに see styles |
tehajimeni てはじめに |
(irregular kanji usage) (adverb) at first; at the outset; to begin with |
仮初めにも see styles |
karisomenimo かりそめにも |
(adverb) for a moment; even as a joke; even in the slightest degree |
仮初めにする see styles |
karisomenisuru かりそめにする |
(exp,vs-i) (kana only) to make light of; to treat lightly; to slight; to neglect |
Variations: |
karisomenimo かりそめにも |
(adverb) for a moment; even as a joke; even in the slightest degree |
Variations: |
hajimeni はじめに |
(expression) (1) first; firstly; first of all; to begin with; in the beginning; at the beginning; (expression) (2) (kana only) (as the section heading of a book, etc.) Introduction; Preface |
Variations: |
tehajimeni てはじめに |
(adverb) at first; at the outset; to begin with; as a first step |
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karisomenimo かりそめにも |
(adverb) (1) (kana only) (with neg. sentence) (not even) for a moment; (not) even in the slightest degree; (not) on any account; (not) at all; (not) under any circumstances; (adverb) (2) (kana only) at any rate; at the very least; putting everything else aside |
Information about this dictionary:
Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.
A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.
Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House
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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).
Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.
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