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始终

shǐ zhōng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 始終

始终 (shǐ zhōng) means "from beginning to end; all along". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 始终 means

1. from beginning to end
2. all along

The characters in 始终

• 始shǐto begin; to start; then
• 终zhōngend; finish

Example sentences

• 她始终没致电给我。
  Tā shǐzhōng méi zhìdiàn gěi wǒ.
  She never phoned me.
• 愚昧始终是危险的。
  Ignorance is always dangerous.
• 我们始终都有死的一天。
  Wǒmen shǐzhōng dōu yǒu sǐ de yī tiān.
  We shall all die some day.
• 我们必须始终为灾害做好准备。
  Wǒmen bìxū shǐzhōng wèi zāihài zuò hǎo zhǔnbèi.
  We must always be prepared for disasters.
• 她等了又等，但他始终未有回来。
  Tā děng le yòu děng, dàn tā shǐzhōng wèiyǒu huílai.
  She waited and waited, but he never returned.
• 我始终不能理解看足球的乐趣，呵呵。
  Wǒ shǐzhōng bù néng lǐjiě kàn zúqiú de lèqù, hēhē.
  I have never been able to understand the joy of watching soccer, haha.

Words starting with 始终

• 始终如一shǐ zhōng rú yīunswerving from start to finish (idiom)
• 始终不渝shǐ zhōng bù yúunswerving; unflinching

Words containing 始终

• 贯彻始终guàn chè shǐ zhōngto follow through; to carry through to the end

Where 始终 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Practice, Implementation & Achievement (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shǐ zhōng correctly.
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