だいいち (とりわけ)

だいいち (とりわけ) · daiichi (toriwake) · JLPT N2 · noun

first

🥇 第 (ordinal marker) + 一 (one) = the one in the first position

第 marks a position in a series and 一 means one, so だいいち covers both 'first' and 'foremost'. とりわけ ('especially, above all') is the second reading, shown by the same word.

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