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Hanzi Character Search: 初

521D

初
beginning, initial, primary
Radical 𠚣
Strokes (without radical) 5 Total Strokes 7
Mandarin reading chū Cantonese reading co1
Japanese on reading sho so Japanese kun reading hajime hatsu ui
Korean reading cho Vietnamese reading

CEDICT Entries:

   [ chū laí zhà daò ]    to be a newcomer, just off the boat
   [ chū chū maó ]    venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom), young and inexperienced, novice, greenhorn
   [ chū paī àn jīng ]    Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part I), first of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初[Ling2 Meng2 chu1]
   [ chū chuàng ]    startup (company, phase etc), newly established, in the early stages
   [ chū chuàng gōng ]    new company, newly established enterprise
   [ chū táng jié ]    the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang, namely Wang Bo 王勃[Wang2 Bo2], Yang Jiong 楊炯|杨炯[Yang2 Jiong3], Lu Zhaolin 盧照鄰|卢照邻[Lu2 Zhao4 lin2], and Luo Binwang 駱賓王|骆宾王[Luo4 Bin1 wang2]
   [ chū xué zhě ]    beginning student
   [ chū shěn ]    preliminary trial
   [ chū liàn ]    first love
   [ chū liàn gǎn jué ]    feelings of first love
   [ chū shè xiǎng ]    tentative idea
   [ chū shēng zhī ]    see 初生之犢不畏虎|初生之犊不畏虎[chu1 sheng1 zhi1 du2 bu4 wei4 hu3]
   [ chū shēng zhī weì ]    lit. a new-born calf has no fear of the tiger (idiom), fig. the fearlessness of youth
   [ chū shēng niú ]    lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom), fig. the young are fearless
   [ chū děng daì shù ]    elementary algebra
   [ chū ]    junior, primary
   [ chū zhōng xué ]    junior high school, junior middle school
   [ chū xué ]    lower elementary school (abbr. to 初小[chu1 xiao3])
   [ chū shēng ]    the initial consonant (or doubled consonant) of a Korean syllable
   [ chū ]    early part (of a decade, century etc), the first years
   [ chū shè ]    first founded
   [ chū shì ]    preliminary exam, qualifying exam, first try, preliminary testing
   [ chū shì shēn shoǔ ]    to have a try, to try one's hand, initial foray
   [ chū saì ]    preliminary contest, initial heats of a competition
   [ chū xuǎn ]    primary election
   [ chū caí huá ]    first sign of budding talent, to display one's ability for the first time
   [ chū fēng máng ]    first sign of budding talent, to display one's ability for the first time
   [ chū toú ]    lit. to first show one's horns (idiom); fig. a first show of emerging talent, first sign of emerging talent, budding genius
⇒    [ líng méng chū ]    Ling Mengchu (1580-1644), Ming dynasty novelist and dramatist, also written 凌蒙初[Ling2 Meng2 chu1]
⇒    [ zhāng jìng chū ]    Zhang Jingchu (1980-), PRC actress
⇒    [ huǐ dāng chū ]    to regret one's past deeds (idiom)
⇒    [ qíng doù chū kaī ]    first awakening of love (usually of a girl) (idiom)
⇒    [ yoǔ jīn dāng chū ]    see 早知今日何必當初|早知今日何必当初[zao3 zhi1 jin1 ri4 he2 bi4 dang1 chu1]
⇒    [ zaǒ zhī jīn dāng chū ]    if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come to this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus (idiom), to regret vainly one's past behavior
⇒    [ chū lián huā ]    Lotus (department store chain)
⇒ 线   [ běn chū xiàn ]    the first meridian, the prime meridian
⇒ 线   [ lín zhì běn chū xiàn ]    the Greenwich meridian
⇒    [ hàn weì chū ]    late Han and early Wei (roughly, first half of 3rd century AD)
⇒    [ dāng chū ]    at that time, originally
⇒    [ huá dēng chū shàng ]    early evening when lanterns are first lit
⇒    [ duǒ de guò chū duǒ guò shí ]    lit. you may go undetected during the new moon, but at full moon you'll be found out (idiom), fig. you can't put it off forever, sooner or later you'll have to deal with it
⇒    [ duǒ guò chū duǒ guò shí ]    see 躲得過初一,躲不過十五|躲得过初一,躲不过十五[duo3 de5 guo4 chu1 yi1 , duo3 bu4 guo4 shi2 wu3]
⇒    [ kaī chū ]    at the outset, at first, early
⇒    [ yoǔ chū xiǎn yoǔ zhōng ]    almost everything has a start, but not many things have an end (idiom); don't start sth you can't handle

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