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开始

kāi shǐ

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 level 2 2-character word Traditional 開始 Measure word 个

开始 (kāi shǐ) means "to begin". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 开始 means

1. to begin
2. beginning
3. to start
4. initial

The characters in 开始

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 始shǐto begin; to start; then

Example sentences

• 开始！
  Action!
• 开始。
  Get started.
• 大家开始笑
  Dàjiā kāishǐ xiào
  They all began to laugh.
• 马上开始。
  Start now.
• 从头开始。
  Start at the beginning.
• 我开始跑。
  I began running.

Words containing 开始

• 重新开始chóng xīn kāi shǐto resume; to restart; to start afresh
• 从零开始cóng líng kāi shǐto start from scratch

Where 开始 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Daily Actions (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kāi shǐ correctly.
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