初しょ対たい面めん

also: はつたいめん

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Common wordJLPTN2Freq.FrequencyTop 20,000

Meanings

first meeting; first encounter

Refers to meeting someone for the first time. Often used in the phrase 初対面の相手 (someone you are meeting for the first time).

〈人ひと〉と初しょ対たい面めんするto meet someone for the first time
彼かれとは去きょ年ねん、パーティーで初しょ対たい面めんした。
I met him for the first time last year at a party.
初しょ対たい面めんの〈人ひと〉someone you are meeting for the first time
初しょ対たい面めんの人ひとと話はなすのは緊きん張ちょうする。
It's nerve-racking to talk to someone you're meeting for the first time.
初しょ対たい面めんで〈事こと〉at the first meeting, (something happens)
初しょ対たい面めんで意い気き投とう合ごうした。
We hit it off right at our first meeting.
初しょ対たい面めんの印いん象しょうone's first impression (of someone)
初しょ対たい面めんの印いん象しょうはとても良よかった。
My first impression of him was very good.

顔かお合あわせ
顔合わせ often refers to an arranged first meeting (e.g. business partners, matchmaking), while 初対面 simply describes meeting someone for the first time in general.

再さい会かいN2
再会 means meeting someone again after a separation, the opposite of 初対面, which is meeting someone for the very first time.
面めん識しき
面識 (がある) means you already know someone's face from a prior meeting, whereas 初対面 means you are meeting them for the first time.
顔かおなじみN1
初対面 describes meeting someone for the very first time, the opposite of 顔なじみ, which describes someone already familiar through repeated contact.

対たい面めんN1
対面 just means meeting someone face to face without implying it's the first time, unlike 初対面 which specifically means the first meeting.

Compound of 初 (sho, 'first') and 対面 (taimen, 'meeting face-to-face'). The reading しょたいめん follows the standard on'yomi for both characters.