(shǐ) - to begin, to start (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
shǐTraditional: 始
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Translation
to begin, to start (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the woman radical 女 gives the meaning and 台 (tái) carries the sound, signifying the beginning or origin.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 女 (woman radical) + 台 (tái, phonetic)
Stroke order
始
Examples
？
When does the film start?
课。
Let's start the lesson.
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He started learning to paint last year.
。
He never gave up from start to finish.
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The story begins here.
始 (shǐ) means to begin and rarely stands alone; it lives in compounds like 开始 (kāishǐ), meaning to start.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 始.
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