振り出し

ふりだし · furidashi · JLPT N1 · noun

beginning

🏁 振 (swing/wave) + 出し (put out): swing out to the start; a board game's 'back to the starting square'

振り出し = 振る (to shake, swing) + 出す (to take out, send out). Think of a dice roll sending you out again from the very beginning. Also used for drafts: 手形の振り出し, issuing a bill.

出 — foot 止 emerging from enclosure 凵
出 is a pictograph showing a foot or plant stepping out of a hollow or enclosure, depicting the act of going forth. The original sense of 'coming out' or 'emerging' has remained stable since oracle bone script. It now broadly means 'to exit, go out, or produce.'

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