noun:

• steel gray (horse coat color); steel grey

noun:

• capital letter
• first character of a dictionary entry
• matrix (printing)
• kanji corresponding to furigana

noun:

• first ring-entering ceremony of the newly promoted grand champion, performed at Meiji shrine

noun:

• blessing of man; winning with a discard in the first turn - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• blessing of earth; winning with a self-drawn tile in the first turn - Mahjong term - From Chinese

noun:

• quilting; quilted coat; quilted clothes

expression:

• cut your coat according to your cloth - proverb

noun:

• the first beat of the war drum

noun:

• the first bonito of the season

noun:

• original court; court of first instance

noun / ~する noun:

• start (of a race); first race

noun:

• previous writing; first of two books; previous letter

noun:

• baby tooth; milk tooth; first set of teeth

noun:

• bridge-opening ceremony; first crossing of a bridge

noun:

• first term (e.g. of sequence); initial term - Mathematics term ➜ 項【こう】

noun:

• down jacket; quilted down coat - From English

noun or verb acting prenominally / noun:

• figured; patterned - abbreviation ➜ 絵羽模様

noun:

• figured haori (coat) - abbreviation ➜ 絵羽羽織

noun / ~する noun:

• nap; short sleep ➜ 一睡
• first sleep of silkworms

noun / ~する noun:

• taking (score) the first two points of the game

noun:

• head of a family; first name on a list

expression:

• first day of the cock in the eleventh month

~の noun:

• top notch; first rate; top-of-the-line; leading

noun:

• new futures on the first trading session of the month

noun:

• mochi offered when drawing the first water of the year ➜ 若水

noun:

• twenty-first day of the month
• twenty-one days