Learn

Road map Kana Immersion Culture

Look up

Dictionary Grammar Reading level

Prove it

Lessons Dictionary Games Kana

v7.3What's newStudy levelSend feedbackReviewFriendsSettingsNotifications

© 2026 Nihongo CircleAbout Changelog Genki companion Credits Terms Privacy Security built by MELTEN

開始

かいし

nountransitive 他動詞intransitive 自動詞

Meanings

1start
2commencement
3beginning

Example sentence

警察は犯人の全国的な捜索を開始した。

The police have started a nationwide hunt for the criminal.

Your sentences

Kanji in this word

開Open, Unfold, Unseal12 strokes 始Commence, Begin8 strokes

More words with 開

開催かいさい · holding a meetingN1 切開せっかい · opening upN1 開会かいかい · opening of a meetingN2 開花かいか · flowering 開くひらく · to openN4

Full entry on Jisho

開演かいえん · curtain raising

開業かいぎょう · opening a business

開発かいはつ · developmentN1

More words with 始

原始げんし · originN2 始めにはじめに · to begin withN2 ～始める～はじめる · to start doing ~N4 始まりはじまり · originN3 初め; 始めはじめ · beginningN5 始まるはじまる · (something) beginsN5 始業しぎょう · start of work 始発しはつ · first trainN1

More at JLPT N3

All 2,138 N3 words All 367 N3 kanji Everything N3