shǐ

始 (shǐ) is a Chinese word meaning “to begin; to start; then”.

Meanings

  1. 1to begin
  2. 2to start
  3. 3then
  4. 4only then

Related words

开始to begin始终from beginning to end原始first创始人creator; founder; initiator自始至终from start to finish (idiom)初始initial始作俑者lit. the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom)初始化(computing) to initialize有始有终where there's a start, there's a finish (idiom); to finish once one starts sth创始to initiate; to found始终如一unswerving from start to finish (idiom)起始to originate

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