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最初

さいしょ

first, beginning

Mnemonic

A hand lifting the very top thing off the pile, and the first cut of the knife into new cloth. Sigh さい, show しょ: page five, right at the top of it: さいしょ.

Built from

most, extreme
A hand taking the very top thing off the pile.
first, beginning
衤 clothing + 刀 knife

Words sharing these kanji

last, final recently best, supreme worst, terrible the most biggest, largest strongest for the first time

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