In this my first post, I found interesting to upload an appropriate image to the occasion, and among the many possibilities, I chose the word 始め (hajime, “start”), that has only one kanji. However, I suffered a little to draw it, as this character
始 (haji-meru, haji-maru; shi) has one of the radicals I regard as most difficult, the onnahen, which origin is the kanji that means "woman" (女, onna, sometimes written as on'na, read as “on” followed by “na”, and not “ona”). As all the radicals suffixed in -hen, the onnahen is posted in the kanji's left side, occupying it completely. In the right of 始 we have another kanji, the 台 (utena; dai, tai), which general idea is "support" as in "pedestal", and that is why it names the flower's calyx (utena). But its most common use is as a counter for machines and vehicles (dai, like in "one car":
車の1台, kuruma no ichidai).
