Today’s first #kanji is #始, which is made of おんなへん（女） and 台.
台 usually means a stand or a pedestal in modern Japanese, but the kanji itself apparently has the meaning of “beginning.”
Meaning: to start
Reading: シ、はじ
始動（シドウ）: starting
始終（シジュウ）: from start to finish, from first to last
開始（カイシ）: a beginning, a start, a commencement, an inauguration
年始（ネンシ）: new year, the beginning of the year
終始（シュウシ）: from beginning to end, all along, throughout
始まる（はじまる）: (for something) to start, to begin (an intransitive verb)
始まり（はじまり）: the beginning, the start, the origin
始める（はじめる）: to begin (something), to start (a transitive verb)
始め（はじめ）: (the) start, (the) beginning
出始め（ではじめ）: the first (crop, appearance)
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