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"initial foray" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
初试身手 初試身手 chū shì shēn shǒu to have a try / to try one's hand / initial foray
Chinese Pinyin Translation
开始 開始 kāi shǐ to begin / beginning / to start / initial / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
冒险 冒險 mào xiǎn to take risks / to take chances / foray / adventure syn
夫 fú (classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion) syn
最初 zuì chū first / primary / initial / original / at first / initially / originally syn
初步 chū bù initial / preliminary / tentative syn
初期 chū qī initial stage / beginning period syn
打响 打響 dǎ xiǎng to start shooting or firing / to win an initial success / to succeed (of a plan) syn
初始 chū shǐ initial / starting (point) syn
起价 起價 qǐ jià initial price (e.g. for the first kilometer) / prices starting from
订金 訂金 dìng jīn an initial payment / earnest money / deposit
后劲 後勁 hòu jìn energy to continue after the initial phase of an activity / delayed effect syn
五音 wǔ yīn five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la / five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音[hou2 yin1], 牙音[ya2 yin1], 舌音[she2 yin1], 齒音|齿音[chi3 yin1], 唇音[chun2 yin1]
萌生 méng shēng to burgeon / to produce / to conceive / to be in the initial stage syn
字头 字頭 zì tóu single-character headword (in a dictionary) / first character of a Chinese word / the top part (esp. a radical) of a Chinese character / the initial of a Chinese syllable
先期 xiān qī the time before a certain date / in advance / beforehand / premature / initial period syn
初赛 初賽 chū sài preliminary contest / initial heats of a competition
声母 聲母 shēng mǔ the initial consonant of a Chinese syllable / the phonetic component of a phono-semantic compound character (e.g. the component 青[qing1] in 清[qing1])
音韵 音韻 yīn yùn music / rhyme and rhythm / initial, 音[yin1], and final and tone, 韻|韵[yun4], of a Chinese character / phoneme
韵母 韻母 yùn mǔ the final of a Chinese syllable (the component of a syllable remaining after removal of the initial consonant, if any, and the tone, e.g. the final of "niáng" is "iang")
首字母 shǒu zì mǔ initial letters
清零 淸零 qīng líng to restore sth to its initial state / to reset (an odometer etc) / to empty (a bank account) / to eradicate (a disease) / (computing) to clear (memory) / to zero (a hard drive)
双拼 雙拼 shuāng pīn (computing) double pinyin (input method where the user types no more than two keystrokes per character, one for the initial and one for the final)
头文字 頭文字 tóu wén zì initial / first letter of word (in Latin script)
起始点 起始點 qǐ shǐ diǎn initial point
序 xù (bound form) order / sequence / (bound form) introductory / initial / preface syn
下马威 下馬威 xià mǎ wēi display of severity immediately on taking office / (fig.) initial show of strength
反切 fǎn qiè traditional system expressing the phonetic value of a Chinese character using two other characters, the first for the initial consonant, the second for the rhyme and tone
初次发放表 初次發放表 initial scale of issue / initial issue / initial stock scaling / initial supply
初次发放量 初次發放量 initial scale of issue / initial issue / initial stock scaling / initial supply
零声母 零聲母 líng shēng mǔ (Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant)
初次弹药发放 初次彈藥發放 initial issue of ammunition / first-line scale of ammunition / ammunition initial issue
初探 chū tàn to conduct an exploratory foray into (an area of study, a market etc) / a preliminary study
三十六字母 sān shí liù zì mǔ thirty six initial consonants of Song phonetic theory
初步核算 初步覈算 chū bù hé suàn initial estimate
初声 初聲 chū shēng the initial consonant (or doubled consonant) of a Korean syllable
始点 始點 shǐ diǎn starting point / initial point
首次公开招股 首次公開招股 shǒu cì gōng kāi zhāo gǔ initial public offering (IPO)
最低初步成套服务 zuì dī chū bù chéng tào fù wù Minimum Initial Service Package
全球海洋观测系统的初步观测系统 GOOS Initial Observing System
初始视察 chū shǐ shì chá initial inspection / baseline inspection
危机局势中生殖健康最低初步成套服务 危機局勢中生殖健康最低初步成套服務 Minimum Initial Service Package for Reproductive Health in Crisis Situations
初始运作能力 初始運作能力 chū shǐ yùn zuò néng lì initial operating capability
初始宣布 chū shǐ xuān bù Initial Declaration
落实共同声明起步行动 落實共同聲明起步行動 Initial Actions for Implementation of the Joint Statement
最初阻滞阵地 最初阻滯陣地 initial delay position
初始警报 初始警報 initial alert
防止可避免残疾初步倡议 防止可避免殘疾初步倡議 Initial Initiative Against Avoidable Disablement
初步组织委员会 初步組織委員會 Initial Organizing Committee
巴基斯坦洪灾初步应急计划 巴基斯坦洪災初步應急計劃 Pakistan Initial Floods Emergency Response Plan
初始报告 初始報告 initial report
首次出庭 initial appearance
第一桶金 dì yī tǒng jīn the first pot of gold / the initial profits from an economic endeavour
原初 yuán chū initial / original / originally / at first syn
简拼 簡拼 jiǎn pīn (computing) input method where the user types just the initial or first letter of each syllable, e.g. "shq" or "sq" for 事情[shi4qing5]
打新 dǎ xīn (finance) to participate in an IPO (initial public offering)
初战 初戰 chū zhàn first battle / initial engagement (of a war or military campaign) syn
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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