初

HSK 5#1869 by frequencyradical 刀

chū["f","d","g"]

at first; (at the) beginning; first; junior; basic

Examples

他们五月初到了大阪。

They arrived in Osaka at the beginning of May.

事情比我们最初想象的更严重。

It was much worse than we initially thought.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.