开始

kāishǐ

to begin; to start; beginning; start

verbnoun HSK 3.0 · Band 2 trad. 開始

Watch it being written

Every character draws itself, stroke by stroke. Then grab the brush: trace it yourself and hear the word when you finish.

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始

Build with these blocks

Chinese words snap together like bricks. Every word below shares a character with this one, so you are already halfway to knowing it.

开
始
  • 始终shǐzhōngfrom beginning to endB5
  • 原始yuánshǐfirstB6
  • 创始人chuàngshǐréncreatorB7
  • 自始至终zìshǐ-zhìzhōngfrom start to finish (idiom)B7

See it in sentences

电影开始了。

The movie has started.

我们开始上课。

Let us start the class.