Etymology

shonichi

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Today it means: The first day of a basho, or the first win after a string of defeats Full definition →

Japanese 初日
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from初日“first day”
  2. English todayshonichi

From Japanese 初日 (“first day”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.