初 (chū)
beginning/first/initial
How 初 is written
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 衤 — clothes
- Traditional
- 初
- Simplified
- 初 (unchanged)
Components
- 衤 clothes
- 刀 knife
Common words using 初
- 初一 chūyī
- first day of lunar month; New Year's Day; first year in junior middle school
- 初三 chūsān
- third year in junior middle school
- 初中 chūzhōng
- junior high school
- 初二 chūèr
- second year in junior middle school
- 初戀 chūliàn
- first love
- 初步 chūbù
- initial; preliminary; tentative
- 初級 chūjí
- junior; primary
- 年初 niánchū
- beginning of the year
- 最初 zuìchū
- first; primary; initial
- 當初 dāngchū
- at that time; originally
- 初冬 chūdōng
- early winter
- 初出茅廬 chūchūmáolú
- venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom); young and inexperienced; novice
初 in a sentence
這是他初次來到台灣旅遊。
Zhè shì tā chūcì láidào Táiwān lǚyóu.
“This is his first time traveling to Taiwan.”
How common is 初?
初 is the 666th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 81.8% of all running text.
Characters that appear with 初
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