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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *头* | 头* | *头
head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
to begin / beginning / to start / initial / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
after; behind / (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
HSK 4
from beginning to end / all along
HSK 3
beginning of the year
HSK 3
around / from beginning to end / all around / front and rear
HSK 3
beginning / to start
HSK 6
initial stage / beginning period
HSK 5
(idiom) (of a principle, purpose etc) consistently upheld; adhered to from beginning to end
Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7th July 1937, regarded as the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争
home page (of a website) / title page / front page / first page / fig. beginning / cover letter
to begin / to open / to start / beginning of an event
HSK 7-9
every beginning is difficult (idiom) / getting started is always the hardest part
the first light of dawn / (fig.) glimmer of hope after a dark period; a new beginning
HSK 7-9
the whole distance / from beginning to end
HSK 7-9
outset / beginning
leader (blank section at the beginning or end of a reel of film)
beginning of maturity (of a girl)
to run through / a connecting thread from beginning to end / to link
HSK 7-9
to start a narrative at the end (or midway), then proceed chronologically from the beginning / to flash back / flashback (in a novel, movie etc)
(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state / indicating an upward movement (e.g. after ) / indicating completion / (after a perception verb, e.g. ) expressing preliminary judgment / also pr. [qi3lai5]
Nanchang Uprising, 1st August 1927, the beginning of military revolt by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War
(polite) birthday making the beginning of new decade of life for an older person, especially over 50 years old (e.g. 60th or 70th birthday)
beginning and end (dates)
beginning / start / opening / in the beginning / to start / to open
the beginning of Spring / the 10 or 20 days following the lunar New Year's Day
beginning of spring / thoughts of love
since the beginning of history
the whole course of an event from beginning to end / ins and outs / the fundamental and the incidental
Lugou Bridge or Marco Polo Bridge in southwest of Beijing, the scene of a conflict that marked the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争
from the beginning / always / to come of one's own accord
the hardships of beginning an undertaking (idiom)
to set (sth) afoot / to initiate / beginning / origin / commencement
beginning of spring / the lunar New Year
start / beginning
beginning of a year
from beginning to end / in its entirety / in accord with fact / literal
at first; in the beginning
a good beginning
beginning of an age / beginning of a decade
to introduce a text by citing documents or source material at the beginning
Lichun or Beginning of Spring, 1st of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 4th-18th February
to start out by / to grow an enterprise beginning with / to begin one's career by
anew / from the beginning / (in poetry and song) repetition of a melody or rhythm
(of women) beginning of menstrual cycle / full-term gestation
beginning student
Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7th July 1937, regarded as the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争
(literary) beginning of the year
to originate; to initiate / beginning; origin
one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) – In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春 each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁
to know nothing about the beginning, the middle or the end / to know nothing at all
to start / at first / beginning
to sprout / (fig). to begin / beginning
bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning
so I have heard (idiom) / the beginning clause of Buddha's quotations as recorded by his disciple, Ananda (Buddhism)
the absolute beginning
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *绪* | 绪* | *绪
beginnings / clues / mental state / thread
to respectfully inform (used at the beginning or end of letters)
"youth freezing", Chinese girls beginning anti-ageing treatments as young as two years old in the hope they will never look old
91 BC attempted coup d'etat against Emperor Wu of Han 漢武帝|汉武帝, beginning with accusations of witchcraft
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *朔* | 朔* | *朔
beginning / first day of lunar month / north
prajña paramita (Sanskrit: supreme wisdom - beginning of the Heart Sutra)
(of CDs, videos etc) surplus (or "cut-out") stock from Western countries, sometimes marked with a notch in the disc or its case, sold cheaply in China (beginning in the 1990s), as well as Eastern Europe etc
literary auxiliary particle, comes at the beginning of a sentence
beginning-school ceremony (old usage) / classical learning


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