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  *初* | 初* | *初
at first / (at the) beginning / first / junior / basic
HSK 3
initial / preliminary / tentative
HSK 3
beginning of the year
HSK 3
junior / primary
HSK 3
at that time / originally
HSK 3
junior high school (abbr. for 初級中學|初级中学)
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
early summer
newborn / nascent / primary (biology)
primary election
preliminary contest / initial heats of a competition
initial / starting (point)
junior high student
startup (company, phase etc); newly established
early evening when lanterns are first lit
preliminary exam / qualifying exam / first try / preliminary testing
to be a newcomer / just off the boat
third year in junior middle school
venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom) / young and inexperienced / novice / greenhorn
early years
rising (sun, moon etc)
lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom) / fig. the young are fearless
first awakening of love (usually of a girl) (idiom)
early autumn / 7th month of the lunar calendar
primary education / junior school education
beginning student
the first meridian / the prime meridian
junior high school / junior middle school
at the outset / at first / early
first sign (of budding talent)
preliminary trial
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
to regret one's past deeds (idiom)
archaic (and simpler) form of a Chinese character
as before / as ever
first of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old)
the absolute beginning
first day of lunar month / New Year's Day / first year in junior middle school
early evening / wedding night / (fig.) first sexual encounter
2nd year in junior middle school / 2nd day of a lunar month / 2nd day of lunar New Year
to have a try / to try one's hand / initial foray
early part (of a decade, century etc) / the first years
early winter
lower elementary school (abbr. for 初級小學|初级小学)
first sign of budding talent / to display one's ability for the first time
first draft (of writing)
lower elementary school (abbr. to 初小)
to bury the hatchet / to become reconciled
to marry for the first time / to be newly married
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
first offender / first offense
menarche
(literary) beginning of the year
initial / original / originally / at first
(computing) to initialize / initialization
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
Zhang Jingchu (1980-), PRC actress
man at birth is fundamentally good in nature (the first two lines of Three Character Classic 三字經|三字经)
startup company
New Year's Day in the lunar calendar
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)
the late Qing and early Republic, i.e. China around 1911
Ling Mengchu (1580-1644), Ming dynasty novelist and dramatist
late Ming and early Qing / around the middle of the 17th century
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
to conduct an exploratory foray into (an area of study, a market etc) / a preliminary study
the initial consonant (or doubled consonant) of a Korean syllable
lit. to first show one's horns (idiom); fig. a first show of emerging talent / first sign of emerging talent / budding genius
late Yuan and early Ming / mid 14th century
beginning of an age / beginning of a decade
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
to make a preliminary estimate
feelings of first love
tentative idea
elementary algebra
first founded
first sign of budding talent / to display one's ability for the first time
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
(literary) former times / in olden days
the early Ming (i.e. from second half of 14th century)
Lotus (department store chain)
the Greenwich meridian
late Han and early Wei (roughly, first half of 3rd century AD)
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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