当初 (當初) dāngchū
dāngchū
noun
at that time; originally
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
, Subdomain: Time
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '當初'; Guoyu '當初')
Contained in
- 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
- 悔不当初(悔不當初) to regret one's past deeds
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第八十一回 Chapter 81 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
- 第六十三回 Chapter 63 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
- 第二回 Chapter 28 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 3
- 第二回 Chapter 2 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
- 第四十一回 Chapter 41 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
- 第二回 Chapter 120 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- 第二十四回 Chapter 24 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
- 第五十回 Chapter 50 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
- 第四十一回 Chapter 41 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
- 第十七回 Chapter 17 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
Collocations
- 当初在 (當初在) 當初在東京時 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第十回 Chapter 10 — count: 9
- 想当初 (想當初) 我想當初石碣天文所載一百八人 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第一百十八回 Chapter 118 — count: 4
- 伦当初 (倫當初) 原來王倫當初不得第之時 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第十一回 Chapter 11 — count: 2
- 当初梁山 (當初梁山) 當初梁山泊發願 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第一百十一回 Chapter 111 — count: 2