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initial / preliminary / tentative
HSK 3
junior high school (abbr. for 初級中學|初级中学)
HSK 3
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  *初* | 初* | *初
at first / (at the) beginning / first / junior / basic
HSK 3
at that time / originally
HSK 3
beginning of the year
HSK 3
elementary (i.e. easy)
HSK 6
initial stage / beginning period
HSK 5
junior / primary
HSK 3
(computing) to initialize / initialization
first / primary / initial / original / at first / initially / originally
HSK 4
first day of lunar month / New Year's Day / first year in junior middle school
man at birth is fundamentally good in nature (the first two lines of Three Character Classic 三字經|三字经)
intact / untouched / as good as before
initial / starting (point)
startup (company, phase etc); newly established
first love
lit. to first show one's horns (idiom); fig. a first show of emerging talent / first sign of emerging talent / budding genius
to bury the hatchet / to become reconciled
start of month / early in the month
HSK 7-9
late Ming and early Qing / around the middle of the 17th century
startup company
early summer
primary election
original intention
HSK 7-9
feelings of first love
junior high student
to conduct an exploratory foray into (an area of study, a market etc) / a preliminary study
first draft (of writing)
(one's) original intention, aspiration etc / (Buddhism) "beginner's mind" (i.e. having an attitude of openness when studying a subject just as a beginner in that subject would)
lower elementary school (abbr. to 初小)
for the first time / first (meeting, attempt etc)
HSK 7-9
2nd year in junior middle school / 2nd day of a lunar month / 2nd day of lunar New Year
early winter
first sign (of budding talent)
(of a project, organization etc) to have begun to take shape
lit. a new-born calf has no fear of the tiger (idiom) / fig. the fearlessness of youth
junior high school / junior middle school
early autumn / 7th month of the lunar calendar
early evening when lanterns are first lit
Zhang Jingchu (1980-), PRC actress
early evening / wedding night / (fig.) first sexual encounter
preliminary trial
first of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old)
to have a try / to try one's hand / initial foray
preliminary exam / qualifying exam / first try / preliminary testing
New Year's Day in the lunar calendar
tentative idea
first sign of budding talent / to display one's ability for the first time
initial / original / originally / at first
at the outset / at first / early
lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom) / fig. the young are fearless
preliminary contest / initial heats of a competition
Lotus (department store chain)
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
the Greenwich meridian
beginning of an age / beginning of a decade
the late Qing and early Republic, i.e. China around 1911
early years
menarche
originally; at first; at the outset
HSK 7-9
Ling Mengchu (1580–1644), Ming dynasty short story writer and playwright
to make a preliminary estimate
primary education / junior school education
the first meridian / the prime meridian
beginning student
first offender / first offense
the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang, namely Wang Bo 王勃, Yang Jiong 楊炯|杨炯, Lu Zhaolin 盧照鄰|卢照邻, and Luo Binwang 駱賓王|骆宾王
third year in junior middle school
as before / as ever
first awakening of love (usually of a girl) (idiom)
late Yuan and early Ming / mid 14th century
to be a newcomer / just off the boat
newborn / nascent / primary (biology)
(literary) beginning of the year
rising (sun, moon etc)
venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom) / young and inexperienced / novice / greenhorn
the early Ming (i.e. from second half of 14th century)
lower elementary school (abbr. for 初級小學|初级小学)
progression from elementary school to junior high (abbr. for 小學生升入初中生|小学生升入初中生)
first founded
elementary algebra
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
early part (of a decade, century etc) / the first years
to regret one's past deeds (idiom)
to marry for the first time / to be newly married
Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang / refers to Yu Shinan 虞世南, Ouyang Xun 歐陽詢|欧阳询, Chu Suiliang 褚遂良 and Xue Ji 薛稷
the absolute beginning
the initial consonant (or doubled consonant) of a Korean syllable
(literary) former times / in olden days
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
archaic (and simpler) form of a Chinese character
almost everything has a start, but not many things have an end (idiom); don't start sth you can't handle
first sign of budding talent / to display one's ability for the first time
the first of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏), which typically begins in mid-July and lasts 10 days
late Han and early Wei (roughly, first half of 3rd century AD)
erroneous variant of 阿閦佛, Aksobhya, the imperturbable ruler of Eastern Paradise, Abhirati


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