Start in Chinese
to start · HSK 2
开始
- 开 to open
- 始 beginning
电影七点开始。 The movie starts at seven.
Other ways to say start
More words with 开 or 始
How do you say start in Chinese?
Start in Chinese is 开始 (kāi shǐ). You can also say 发起 (fā qǐ), 开创 (kāi chuàng), 开启 (kāi qǐ), 开头 (kāi tóu).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
More free tools
Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.
Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.