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当初

dāng chū

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 當初

当初 (dāng chū) means "at that time". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 当初 means

1. at that time
2. originally

The characters in 当初

• 当dāng(onomatopoeia) dong; ding dong (bell)
• 初chū(bound form) at first; initially; (bound form) first; early…

Example sentences

• 我当初要是买音乐会的票就好了。
  Wǒ dāngchū yàoshi mǎi yīnyuèhuì de piào jiù hǎo le.
  I wish I had bought a ticket for the concert.
• 汤姆说我当初应该去找玛丽帮我。
  Tom said that I should've asked Mary for help.
• 要不是当初有内战，他们现在应该挺富裕了。
  If it had not been for civil war, they would be wealthy now.

Words containing 当初

• 悔不当初huǐ bù dāng chūto regret one's past deeds (idiom)
• 早知今日何必当初zǎo zhī jīn rì hé bì dāng chūif I (you, she, he...) had known it would come to this, I (you, she, he...) would not…
• 既有今日何必当初jì yǒu jīn rì hé bì dāng chūsee 早知今日何必当初

Where 当初 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dāng chū correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.