始 shǐ — beginning; start
始
Level 1 · Common HSK 2 #1329
shǐ shi3
Detailed explanation
noun
- (形声。从女，台声。本义:开头，开始)
- begin;start e.g 自始至终 始卒 · 始室 · 始基
- past
- foundation
- 姓
adverb
- at first e.g 始春 · 始愿 · 欲善终，应善始 · 始初 · 始闻其语
- before long
- just， only then e.g 千呼万唤始出来
- then
- only
verb
- plan and contrive
- breed
Related words
- 开始 to begin; to start; beginning
- 始终 from beginning to end
- 原始 original; primitive
- 伊始 outset; beginning
- 创始人 founder; originator
- 初始 initial/starting (point)
- 自始至终 from start to finish; all along
- 始终不渝 unswerving; unflinching
- 起始 to start; to originate; to commence
- 始终如一 consistent from start to finish; unswerving
- 未始 not necessarily; perhaps not
- 始祖 first ancestor; originator
- 原始社会 primitive society
- 创始 to initiate/to found
- 始发 (of trains etc) to set off (on a journey)
- 始料不及 unforeseen; beyond what one had anticipated
- 始末 whole story/the ins and outs
- 周而复始 cycle after cycle; again and again
- 原始积累 primitive accumulation (of capital)
- 善始善终 to see a thing through from start to finish; to do well at both the beginning an