Word Meaning お食い初め

おくいぞめ okuizome

お食い初め is read as おくいぞめ (okuizome) and means okuizome.

Meaning

English

  1. okuizome
  2. weaning ceremony
  3. ritual meal for a 100-day old infant

Reading

Kana

おくいぞめ

Romaji

okuizome

Writing Variants

  • 御食い初め おくいぞめ okuizome

Stroke Sequence

5 Characters • 23 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 4 Kanken 7級 Rank 73707 Priority L

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

食初め

くいぞめ

okuizome

お初

おはつ

(for the) first time

月初め

つきはじめ

beginning of the month

書き初め

かきぞめ

first calligraphy of the year

出初め

でぞめ

debut

年度初め

ねんどはじめ

beginning of the (fiscal) year

着初め

きぞめ

first wearing (of new clothes)

買い初め

かいぞめ

first shopping of the year

歩き初め

ありきぞめ

opening to pedestrians (e.g. a new bridge)

お初徳兵衛

おはつとくべえ

Ohatsu and Tokubei (lovers who committed suicide together in 1703)

為初め

しそめ

outset