Character Details
| start (to); beginning | Ascii: 24537 | w682 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 开始 | kāishǐ | kye-sheuh | 1+3 | 好 (女 woman + 子 child) + 看 (手 hand + 目 eye) | 开始 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Let's get started | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; verb | 开 (门 door radical + 一) + 始 (女 woman + 台 platform) | ||||||||||
| Opening (开) beginning (始) — to start. | |||||||||||