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発端

23 strokes in total

📖 English Meaning

beginning, incipiency, start

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Hiragana:

ほったん　はったん

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Romaji:

hottan　hattan

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Character Meanings

発 issue, dispatch, send out, emit

端 end, extreme; head; beginning

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