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HSK
(of a student) to start school / (of a semester) to begin / (old) to found a school / the start of a new term
HSK 2
to start an engine / to boot up (a computer) / to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete / to begin shooting a film or TV show
HSK 2
to begin an undertaking; to start an enterprise / entrepreneurship
HSK 3
to begin / beginning / to start / initial / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to raise one's head; to look up / (fig.) to begin to emerge; to show signs of growth / (commerce) account name, or space for writing the name on checks, bills etc
HSK 5
to begin / to open / to start / beginning of an event
HSK 7-9
to begin (with ...) (typically used in a structure such as 從|从 + {noun} + 入手: "to begin with {noun}; to take {noun} as one's starting point") / to receive; to obtain; to buy
HSK 7-9
to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation) / to start a construction job
HSK 7-9
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  *阿* | 阿* | *阿
abbr. for country names that begin with : Algeria 阿爾及利亞|阿尔及利亚, Afghanistan 阿富汗 etc
to begin a lecture / to start on a story
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  *乌* | 乌* | *乌
abbr. for country names that begin with 烏|乌: Ukraine 烏克蘭|乌克兰, Uzbekistan 烏茲別克斯坦|乌兹别克斯坦 etc / surname Wu
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  *始* | 始* | *始
to begin / to start / then / only then
(agriculture) to begin sowing / (of a radio or TV station) to start broadcasting / (of a radio or TV station) to start to air (a program)
your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific) / to erupt / to begin abruptly
(fig.) to break the ice; to begin to restore amicable relations
(of a train, bus etc) to pull into a station; to arrive at a stop / (of a person) to enter a station / to visit a website / to formally begin a temporary postdoctoral research position (China has postdoctoral research "stations" 博士後流動站|博士后流动站 where postdocs conduct research for a limited period.)
to begin a (judicial) court session
to begin shooting (a movie, a scene of a movie etc) / to start the bidding (auction) / to start a trading session (stock market)
lit. a thousand mile journey begins with the first step / fig. big accomplishments come from an accumulation of little achievements made one by one
to start out by / to grow an enterprise beginning with / to begin one's career by
school begins / give a course / teach a subject
to begin / to set in motion
to begin to stir (idiom) / to get restless / to become threatening
bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning
the second of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏), which begins in late July and lasts either 10 or 20 days, depending on the Chinese calendar in that year
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  *俶* | 俶* | *俶
to begin
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  *谡* | 谡* | *谡
composed / rise / to begin
(of a play, movie etc) to begin
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  *昉* | 昉* | *昉
dawn / to begin
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  *朏* | 朏* | *朏
(literary) (of the crescent moon) to begin to shine
the first of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏), which typically begins in mid-July and lasts 10 days
a new year begins (idiom)
to sprout / (fig). to begin / beginning
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  *迿* | 迿* | *迿
to be the first to begin a quarrel
(old) (of a child) to begin schooling
lit. the giant Peng bird spreads its wings and begins to fly / displaying awesome power and momentum at the outset / to have the world at one's feet
(Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant)
to begin to take shape / to be about to materialize
to be likely or possible / to begin to take shape / to be likely to succeed
(dialect) to begin to dawn / to be just getting light


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