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  *初* | 初* | *初
at first / (at the) beginning / first / junior / basic
HSK 3
at that time / originally
HSK 3
beginning of the year
HSK 3
junior / primary
HSK 3
junior high school (abbr. for 初級中學|初级中学)
HSK 3
initial / preliminary / tentative
HSK 3
first / primary / initial / original / at first / initially / originally
HSK 4
initial stage / beginning period
HSK 5
elementary (i.e. easy)
HSK 6
for the first time / first (meeting, attempt etc)
HSK 7-9
start of month / early in the month
HSK 7-9
original intention
HSK 7-9
originally; at first; at the outset
HSK 7-9
(one's) original intention, aspiration etc / (Buddhism) "beginner's mind" (i.e. having an attitude of openness when studying a subject just as a beginner in that subject would)
first love
preliminary trial
to bury the hatchet / to become reconciled
initial / original / originally / at first
to be a newcomer / just off the boat
early evening when lanterns are first lit
primary election
lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom) / fig. the young are fearless
lower elementary school (abbr. for 初級小學|初级小学)
first draft (of writing)
junior high student
at the outset / at first / early
first sign (of budding talent)
initial / starting (point)
early summer
to regret one's past deeds (idiom)
early evening / wedding night / (fig.) first sexual encounter
first day of lunar month / New Year's Day / first year in junior middle school
preliminary contest / initial heats of a competition
archaic (and simpler) form of a Chinese character
newborn / nascent / primary (biology)
third year in junior middle school
early years
beginning student
the first meridian / the prime meridian
junior high school / junior middle school
as before / as ever
primary education / junior school education
lower elementary school (abbr. to 初小)
preliminary exam / qualifying exam / first try / preliminary testing
2nd year in junior middle school / 2nd day of a lunar month / 2nd day of lunar New Year
first of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old)
the absolute beginning
venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom) / young and inexperienced / novice / greenhorn
early part (of a decade, century etc) / the first years
rising (sun, moon etc)
first awakening of love (usually of a girl) (idiom)
first offender / first offense
(literary) former times / in olden days
first sign of budding talent / to display one's ability for the first time
the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang, namely Wang Bo 王勃, Yang Jiong 楊炯|杨炯, Lu Zhaolin 盧照鄰|卢照邻, and Luo Binwang 駱賓王|骆宾王
early winter
early autumn / 7th month of the lunar calendar
lit. a new-born calf has no fear of the tiger (idiom) / fig. the fearlessness of youth
the first of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏), which typically begins in mid-July and lasts 10 days
to marry for the first time / to be newly married
menarche
to conduct an exploratory foray into (an area of study, a market etc) / a preliminary study
man at birth is fundamentally good in nature (the first two lines of Three Character Classic 三字經|三字经)
if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come to this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus (idiom) / to regret vainly one's past behavior
late Yuan and early Ming / mid 14th century
Ling Mengchu (1580-1644), Ming dynasty novelist and dramatist
Ling Mengchu (1580-1644), Ming dynasty novelist and dramatist
to make a preliminary estimate
Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part I), first of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初
startup (company, phase etc); newly established
startup company
(computing) to initialize / initialization
feelings of first love
tentative idea
elementary algebra
the initial consonant (or doubled consonant) of a Korean syllable
first founded
to have a try / to try one's hand / initial foray
first sign of budding talent / to display one's ability for the first time
lit. to first show one's horns (idiom); fig. a first show of emerging talent / first sign of emerging talent / budding genius
Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang / refers to Yu Shinan 虞世南, Ouyang Xun 歐陽詢|欧阳询, Chu Suiliang 褚遂良 and Xue Ji 薛稷
intact / untouched / as good as before
progression from elementary school to junior high (abbr. for 小學生升入初中生|小学生升入初中生)
beginning of an age / beginning of a decade
Zhang Jingchu (1980-), PRC actress
the early Ming (i.e. from second half of 14th century)
late Ming and early Qing / around the middle of the 17th century
Lotus (department store chain)
the Greenwich meridian
New Year's Day in the lunar calendar
the late Qing and early Republic, i.e. China around 1911
late Han and early Wei (roughly, first half of 3rd century AD)
lit. you may go undetected during the new moon, but at full moon you'll be found out (idiom) / fig. you can't put it off forever / sooner or later you'll have to deal with it
erroneous variant of 阿閦佛, Aksobhya, the imperturbable ruler of Eastern Paradise, Abhirati
almost everything has a start, but not many things have an end (idiom); don't start sth you can't handle


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