始 shǐ

1. shǐ noun beginning; start
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 起点 (Guoyu '始' n 1; Kroll 2015 '始' 1; Unihan '始')
2. shǐ adverb just now; then; only then
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 方才 or 然后 (Guoyu '始' adv 1; Kroll 2015 '始' 2; Unihan '始')
3. shǐ adverb first; for the first time
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: 始 may be used as an adverb in Literary Chinese. For example, 臣始至於境 'When I first arrived at the borders of your kingdom' (Mengzi: 2.2/8/12, translation by Legge; Guoyu '始' adv 3; Kroll 2015 '始' 1a; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 121)
4. shǐ adverb exactly; just
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '始' 3)
5. shǐ adverb formerly
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 曾 (Guoyu '始' adv 2)

Contained in

• 更始 to make a new start; to regenerate
• 终始(終始) start and finish
• 终始如一(終始如一) unchanging from start to finish
• 始新统(始新統) Eocene system
• 人始生有大命 from the start of their lives, people have a greater destiny
• 原始林 old growth forest; primary forest; original forest cover
• 元始 the absolute beginning ; Yuanshi
• 有始有终(有始有終) where there's a start, there's a finish; to finish once one starts
• 阴阳终始(陰陽終始) yin and yang finish and start
• 始新纪(始新紀) Eocene
• 开始以前(開始以前) before the beginning
• 全始全终(全始全終) a solid start and complete finish
• 创始人(創始人) creator; founder; initiator
• 创始(創始) to initiate; to found
• 自始至终(自始至終) from start to finish
• 初始 initial; first
• 自始 from the outset; ab initio
• 原始社会(原始社會) primitive society
• 报本反始(報本反始) ensure that you pay debts of gratitude
• 始点(始點) starting point; initial point
• 开始(開始) to begin; to start ; beginning; start
• 原始 first; original; primitive
• 终始若一(終始若一) unchanging from start to finish
• 周而复始(周而復始) finish and then start again; unceasing ; to circle unceasingly ; the cycle comes back to the start; to move in circles; the wheel comes full circle
• 始祖 primogenitor; founder of a school or trade
• 重新开始(重新開始) to resume; to restart; to start afresh
• 一元复始(一元復始) a new year begins (idiom)
• 成始成终(成始成終) done well from start to finish
• 始作俑者 the first person to bury funerary dolls; the originator of an evil practice
• 善始善终(善始善終) where there's a start, there's a finish; to finish once one starts something; to carry things through
• 原始森林 virgin forest
• 始终不易(始終不易) from beginning to end not changing; unswerving
• 倡始 to raise (an issue); to propose; to put forward; to suggest; to initiate ; to initiate
• 始终(始終) from beginning to end ; all along ; the whole course of events ; in the end; after all
• 伊始 outset; beginning
• 从零开始(從零開始) to start from scratch
• 元始天尊 Yuanshi Tianzun; Celestial Venerable of the Primordial Beginning
• 始料未及 not expected at the outset; unforeseen; to be surprised by the turn of events
• 原始热带雨林(原始熱帶雨林) virgin tropical rainforest

Also contained in

原始码 、 汉更始帝 、 始兴 、 原始印欧宗教 、 建始县 、 弘始 、 始兴县 、 皇始 、 摩登原始人 、 建始 、 固始 、 秦始皇帝

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷八十五　志第三十五: 　百官一 Volume 85 Treatises 38: Official Posts 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 63
• 卷八十二　　　　列傳第七 十一宗諸子 Volume 82 Biographies 7: Sons of the Eleven Zongs New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 60
• 《秦始皇本紀》 Annals of Qin Shi Huang Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 59
• 卷八十三　　　　列傳第八 諸帝公主 Volume 83 Biographies 8: The Princesses of all Emperors New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 56
• 卷二十一 律曆志 Volume 21: Treatise on Rhythm and the Calendar Book of Han 漢書 — count: 49
• Daode Jing 《道德經》 Daode Jing 道德經 — count: 45
• 《秦楚之際月表》 Monthly Table of (the Events) between Qin and Chu Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 43
• 卷七十　　志第二十一: 　禮樂四 Volume 70 Treatises 23: Rites and Music 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 40
• 卷二十七上　　　志第十七上　　曆三上 Volume 27a Treatises 18: Calendar 3a New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 40
• 卷一百六十二 志第一百十五 職官二 Volume 162 Treatises 115: Offical Posts 2 History of Song 宋史 — count: 39

Collocations

• 始朝 (始朝) 始朝桓王也 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 8
• 始用 (始用) 始用六佾也 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 6
• 于是乎始 (於是乎始) 紀於是乎始判 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 5
• 始通 (始通) 始通也 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 4
• 始大 (始大) 秦仲始大 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧秦‧車鄰 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qin - Che Lin — count: 4
• 汤始 (湯始) 湯始居亳 — Book of Documents 尚書, 夏書 胤征 Xia Shu - Punitive Expedition of Yin — count: 2
• 公始 (公始) 武公始并晉國 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧唐‧無衣 Lessons from the states - Odes of Tang - Wu Yi — count: 2
• 始命 (始命) 始命有田狩之事 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧秦‧駟驖 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qin - Si Tie — count: 2
• 火始 (火始) 無若火始焰焰 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 洛誥 Zhou Shu - Announcement concerning Luo — count: 2
• 始见 (始見) 諸侯始見乎武王廟也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 周頌‧臣工之什‧載見 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Chen Gong - Zai Jian — count: 2