初 chū

1. chū adverb at first; at the beginning; initially
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: 初 is used in both Literary Chinese as Modern Chinese in this sense and is often used at the start of a sentence (CED '初' 1; Kroll 2015 '初' 1; NCCED '初' 1; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 11).
2. chū prefix used to prefix numbers
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Especially the first several days of the month in the lunar calendar (NCCED '初' 4)
3. chū prefix used as a prefix incidating the first time or part of something
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, 初年 'early years' (CED '初' 2; Kroll 2015 '初' 2; NCCED '初' 2; Sun 2006, loc. 691)
4. chū adverb just now
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '初' 3)
5. chū particle thereupon
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '初' 4)
6. chū adverb an intensifying adverb
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '初' 5)
7. chū adjective rudimentary; elementary
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: For example, 初级 'elementary level' (CED '初' 4; NCCED '初' 6)
8. chū adjective original
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CED '初' 5; NCCED '初' 3)

Contained in

• 初秋 early autumn
• 和好如初 to bury the hatchet; to become reconciled
• 初次 first; first time; primary; tentative
• 初学者(初學者) beginning student
• 初文 archaic (and simpler) form of a Chinese character
• 初犯 first offender; first offense
• 初衷 original intention
• 初时(初時) initially; at the outset
• 太初 the absolute beginning ; the Way ; ancient; early period ; Taichu
• 阿初佛 Aksobhya
• 初会遇(初會遇) first encounter
• 初六 sixth day of the lunar month
• 初出茅庐(初出茅廬) venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time; young and inexperienced; novice; greenhorn
• 初冬 early winter
• 开初(開初) at the outset; at first; early
• 初夏 early summer
• 初设(初設) first founded
• 初升 rising (sun, moon etc)
• 初生 newborn; nascent; primary
• 初祖 first patriarch; founder
• 初始 initial; first
• 唐初四大家 Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang
• 初级中学(初級中學) junior high school; junior middle school
• 初妻 first wife
• 初露锋芒(初露鋒芒) first sign of budding talent; to display one's ability for the first time
• 初等代数(初等代數) elementary algebra
• 明末清初 late Ming and early Qing; around the middle of the 17th century
• 初夜 early evening ; wedding night
• 早知今日何必当初(早知今日何必當初) if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come to this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus
• 完好如初 intact, as if untouched
• 初潮 menarche
• 初稿 an initial draft
• 本初子午线(本初子午線) the first meridian; the prime meridian
• 一本初衷 according to original intention
• 初三 third day of the lunar month ; the third year of middle school; ninth grade
• 初来乍到(初來乍到) to be a newcomer
• 年初 beginning of the year
• 初更 first watch
• 最初 first; outset; start
• 初审(初審) preliminary trial; preliminary investigation
• 初试(初試) preliminary exam; qualifying exam; first try; preliminary testing
• 当初(當初) at that time; originally
• 启初(啟初) at the start
• 初十 tenth day of the lunar month
• 初中 junior high school; middle school
• 靡不有初，鲜克有终(靡不有初，鮮克有終) almost everything has a start, but not many things have an end; don't start sth you can't handle

Also contained in

初唐四杰 、 凌濛初 、 民初 、 清末民初 、 载初

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