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开头

kāi tóu

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 開頭

开头 (kāi tóu) means "beginning; to start". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 开头 means

1. beginning
2. to start

The characters in 开头

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 头tóuhead; hair style; the top

Example sentences

• 万事开头难。
  Wàn shì kāitóu nán.
  The first step is the hardest.

Words containing 开头

• 万事开头难wàn shì kāi tóu nánevery beginning is difficult (idiom); getting started is always the hardest part

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