Character · Time
初
しょしん shoshinしょし shoshiはつしぐれ hatsushigure
beginning, first
Composition
Origin
The knife (刀) makes the first cut into cloth (衤): the opening gesture, hence the beginning.
In the thoughts
- 初心shoshinbeginner's spirit
- 初志shoshifirst resolve
- 初しぐれhatsushigurefirst winter rain