| | (of a student) to start school / (of a semester) to begin / (old) to found a school / the start of a new term | HSK 2 |
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| | to start an engine / to boot up (a computer) / to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete / to begin shooting a film or TV show | HSK 2 |
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| | to begin an undertaking; to start an enterprise / entrepreneurship | HSK 3 |
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| | to begin / beginning / to start / initial / CL: 個|个 | HSK 3 |
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| | 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 |
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| | to begin / to open / to start / beginning of an event | HSK 7-9 |
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| | 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 |
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| | to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation) / to start a construction job | HSK 7-9 |
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| | abbr. for country names that begin with 阿: Algeria 阿爾及利亞|阿尔及利亚, Afghanistan 阿富汗 etc | |
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| | to begin / to start / then / only then | |
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| | (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) | |
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| | your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific) / to erupt / to begin abruptly | |
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| | (fig.) to break the ice; to begin to restore amicable relations | |
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| | (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.) | |
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| | to begin a (judicial) court session | |
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| | to begin shooting (a movie, a scene of a movie etc) / to start the bidding (auction) / to start a trading session (stock market) | |
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| | lit. a thousand mile journey begins with the first step / fig. big accomplishments come from an accumulation of little achievements made one by one | |
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| | to start out by / to grow an enterprise beginning with / to begin one's career by | |
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| | school begins / give a course / teach a subject | |
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| | to begin / to set in motion | |
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| | to begin to stir (idiom) / to get restless / to become threatening | |
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| | bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning | |
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| | 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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| | composed / rise / to begin | |
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| | (of a play, movie etc) to begin | |
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| | dawn / to begin | |
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| | (literary) (of the crescent moon) to begin to shine | |
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| | the first of the three annual periods of hot weather ( 三伏), which typically begins in mid-July and lasts 10 days | |
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| | a new year begins (idiom) | |
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| | to sprout / (fig). to begin / beginning | |
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| | to be the first to begin a quarrel | |
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| | (old) (of a child) to begin schooling | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | (Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant) | |
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| | to begin to take shape / to be about to materialize | |
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| | to be likely or possible / to begin to take shape / to be likely to succeed | |
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| | (dialect) to begin to dawn / to be just getting light | |
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