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一限目 (いちげんめ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

一いち限げん目め

Meanings

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noun

first period; first class

Used in school contexts to refer to the first class of the day.

一いち限げん目めは数すう学がくの授じゅ業ぎょうです。
The first period is math class.
一いち限げん目めに遅ち刻こくしてしまった。
I was late for the first period.

Written forms

一いち限げん目め
Standard kanji spelling.
１いち限げん目め
Numerical variant using half-width digit.

Kanji

一one, one radical (no.1)
限limit, restrict, to best of ability
目

eye, class, look

Similar words

二に限げん目め
Second period; follows the same pattern with other numbers.
一いち時じ間かん目め
Synonym meaning 'first period', slightly more explicit about the time unit.

Etymology

Compound of 一 (いち, 'one') + 限目 (げんめ, 'period'). 限目 is a suffix used to count class periods.