开始

開始traditional

HSK 2#132 by frequencyradical 廾

kāi shǐ["v","vn"]

to begin; to start; beginning; initial

Measure word: 个

Examples

开始！

Action!

开始很难。

Getting started was difficult.

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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.