开始開始 in English

Measure word

• 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested
• 点 diǎn point; dot; drop; speck; o'clock; point (in space or time); to draw a dot; to check on a list; to choose; to order... attested in use

Character breakdown

• 开開 kāi to open (transitive or intransitive)
• 始 shǐ to begin

Stroke order

How it used to be written

开

These are the forms of 開, the traditional character: 开 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Warring States script 戰國.秦
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 7 forms

始

• Bronze script 商代晚期
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 16 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 8点半之前不会开始。

  It doesn't start before eight thirty.

• 一开始，我以为他病了。

  At first I thought it was sick.

• 一开始许多事情看上去不同了，但我很快习惯了我的新生活。

  At first many things seemed different, but I soon got involved in my new life.

• 五年后，战争开始了。

  War began five years later.

• 人们或可选择何时开始恋爱，但它的终结却不由人。

  People can begin to love when they choose, but they have no choice when it comes to ending love.

• 什么时候开始下雨的?

  When did it begin to rain?

• 从上週四开始一直下雨。

  It has been raining since last Thursday.

All example sentences with 开始