| Simplified | Traditional | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| 初 | 初 | chū | - at first - (at the) beginning - first - junior - basic |
| 初一 | 初一 | chūyī | - first day of lunar month - New Year's Day - first year in junior middle school |
| 初三 | 初三 | chūsān | - third year in junior middle school |
| 初中 | 初中 | chūzhōng | - junior high school - abbr. for 初級中學|初级中学[chu1 ji2 zhong1 xue2] |
| 初二 | 初二 | chūèr | - second year in junior middle school |
| 初伏 | 初伏 | chūfú | - middle ten days of July, the first of 三伏 sān fú, three hottest periods of the year |
| 初估 | 初估 | chūgū | - to make a preliminary estimate |
| 初冬 | 初冬 | chūdōng | - early winter |
| 初创 | 初創 | chūchuàng | - startup (company, phase etc) - newly established - in the early stages |
| 初升 | 初升 | chūshēng | - rising (sun, moon etc) |
| 初夏 | 初夏 | chūxià | - early summer |
| 初夜 | 初夜 | chūyè | - early evening - wedding night - (fig.) first sexual encounter |
| 初始 | 初始 | chūshǐ | - initial - starting (point) |
| 初审 | 初審 | chūshěn | - preliminary trial |
| 初小 | 初小 | chūxiǎo | - lower elementary school - abbr. for 初级小学 |
| 初年 | 初年 | chūnián | - early years |
| 初恋 | 初戀 | chūliàn | - first love |
| 初更 | 初更 | chūgēng | - first of the five night watch periods 19:00-21:00 (old) |
| 初期 | 初期 | chūqī | - initial stage - beginning period |
| 初次 | 初次 | chūcì | - first - for the first time - primary - tentative |
| 初步 | 初步 | chūbù | - initial - preliminary - tentative |
| 初潮 | 初潮 | chūcháo | - menarche |
| 初犯 | 初犯 | chūfàn | - first offender - first offense |
| 初生 | 初生 | chūshēng | - newborn - nascent - primary (biology) |
| 初秋 | 初秋 | chūqiū | - early autumn - 7th month of the lunar calendar |
| 初稿 | 初稿 | chūgǎo | - first draft (of writing) |
| 初等 | 初等 | chūděng | - elementary (i.e. easy) |
| 初级 | 初級 | chūjí | - junior - primary |
| 初声 | 初聲 | chūshēng | - initial (i.e. initial consonant of a syllable in Asian phonetics) |
| 初叶 | 初葉 | chūyè | - early part (of a decade, century etc) - the first years |
| 初衷 | 初衷 | chūzhōng | - original intention or aspiration |
| 初设 | 初設 | chūshè | - first founded |
| 初试 | 初試 | chūshì | - preliminary exam - qualifying exam - first try - preliminary testing |
| 初赛 | 初賽 | chūsài | - preliminary contest - initial heats of a competition |
| 初选 | 初選 | chūxuǎn | - primary election (US) |
| 初露 | 初露 | chūlù | - first sign (of budding talent) |
| 太初 | 太初 | tàichū | - the absolute beginning |
| 如初 | 如初 | rúchū | - as before - as ever |
| 年初 | 年初 | niánchū | - beginning of the year |
| 往初 | 往初 | wǎngchū | - (literary) former times - in olden days |
| 明初 | 明初 | Míngchū | - the early Ming (i.e. from second half of 14th century) |
| 最初 | 最初 | zuìchū | - first - primary - initial |
| 月初 | 月初 | yuèchū | - start of month - early in the month |
| 当初 | 當初 | dāngchū | - at that time - originally |
| 起初 | 起初 | qǐchū | - originally - at first - at the outset |
| 开初 | 開初 | kāichū | - at the outset - at first - early |
| 凌蒙初 | 凌濛初 | LíngMéngchū | - Ling Mengchu (1580-1644), Ming dynasty novelist and dramatist - also written 凌蒙初 |
| 凌蒙初 | 凌蒙初 | LíngMéngchū | - Ling Mengchu (1580-1644), Ming dynasty novelist and dramatist - also written 凌濛初 |
| 初中生 | 初中生 | chūzhōngshēng | - junior high student |
| 初始化 | 初始化 | chūshǐhuà | - (computing) to initialize - initialization |
| 初学者 | 初學者 | chūxuézhě | - beginning student |
| 年代初 | 年代初 | niándàichū | - beginning of an age - beginning of a decade |
| 张静初 | 張靜初 | ZhāngJìngchū | - Zhang Jingchu (1980-), PRC actress |
| 阿初佛 | 阿初佛 | Āchūfó | - erroneous variant of 阿閦佛, Aksobhya, the imperturbable ruler of Eastern Paradise, Abhirati |
| 元末明初 | 元末明初 | YuánmòMíngchū | - late Yuan and early Ming - mid 14th century |
| 初来乍到 | 初來乍到 | chūláizhàdào | - to be a newcomer - just off the boat |
| 初出茅庐 | 初出茅廬 | chūchūmáolú | - venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom) - young and inexperienced - novice - greenhorn |
| 初创公司 | 初創公司 | chūchuànggōngsī | - new company - newly established enterprise |
| 初恋感觉 | 初戀感覺 | chūliàngǎnjué | - feelings of first love |
| 初步设想 | 初步設想 | chūbùshèxiǎng | - tentative idea |
| 初等代数 | 初等代數 | chūděngdàishù | - elementary algebra |
| 初等教育 | 初等教育 | chūděngjiàoyù | - primary education - junior school education |
| 初级中学 | 初級中學 | chūjízhōngxué | - junior high school - junior middle school |
| 初级小学 | 初級小學 | chūjíxiǎoxué | - lower elementary school - abbr. to 初小 |
| 初试身手 | 初試身手 | chūshìshēnshǒu | - to have a try - to try one's hand - initial foray |
| 初露才华 | 初露才華 | chūlùcáihuá | - first sign of budding talent - to display one's ability for the first time |
| 初露锋芒 | 初露鋒芒 | chūlùfēngmáng | - first sign of budding talent - to display one's ability for the first time |
| 初露头角 | 初露頭角 | chūlùtóujiǎo | - lit. to first show one's horns (idiom); fig. a first show of emerging talent - first sign of emerging talent - budding genius |
| 和好如初 | 和好如初 | héhǎorúchū | - to bury the hatchet - to become reconciled |
| 完好如初 | 完好如初 | wánhǎorúchū | - intact - untouched - as good as before |
| 悔不当初 | 悔不當初 | huǐbùdāngchū | - to regret one's past deeds (idiom) |
| 情窦初开 | 情竇初開 | qíngdòuchūkāi | - first awakening of love (usually of a girl) (idiom) |
| 明末清初 | 明末清初 | MíngmòQīngchū | - late Ming and early Qing - around the middle of the 17th century |
| 易初莲花 | 易初蓮花 | YìchūLiánhuā | - Lotus (department store chain) |
| 正月初一 | 正月初一 | zhēngyuèchūyī | - New Year's Day in the lunar calendar |
| 清末民初 | 清末民初 | QīngmòMínchū | - the late Qing and early Republic, i.e. China around 1911 |
| 汉末魏初 | 漢末魏初 | HànmòWèichū | - late Han and early Wei (roughly, first half of 3rd century AD) |
| 华灯初上 | 華燈初上 | huádēngchūshàng | - early evening when lanterns are first lit |
| 唐初四大家 | 唐初四大家 | TángchūSìDàjiā | - Four Great Poets of early Tang - refers to Yu Shi'nan 虞世南[Yu2 Shi4 nan2], Ouyang Xun 陽歐詢|欧阳询[Ou1 yang2 Xun2], Chu Suiliang 楮遂良[Chu3 Sui4 liang2] and Xue Ji 薛稷[Xue1 Ji4] |
| 本初子午线 | 本初子午線 | běnchūzǐwǔxiàn | - the first meridian - the prime meridian |
| 初刻拍案惊奇 | 初刻拍案驚奇 | ChūkèPāiànJīngqí | - 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[Ling2 Meng2 chu1] |
| 人之初，性本善 | 人之初，性本善 | rénzhīchū,xìngběnshàn | - man at birth is fundamentally good in nature - the first two lines of Three Character Classic 三字經|三字经[San1 zi4 Jing1] |
| 初生之犊不怕虎 | 初生之犢不怕虎 | chūshēngzhīdúbùpàhǔ | - see 初生之犢不畏虎|初生之犊不畏虎[chu1 sheng1 zhi1 du2 bu4 wei4 hu3] |
| 初生之犊不畏虎 | 初生之犢不畏虎 | chūshēngzhīdúbùwèihǔ | - lit. a new-born calf has no fear of the tiger (idiom) - fig. the fearlessness of youth |
| 既有今日何必当初 | 既有今日何必當初 | jìyǒujīnrìhébìdāngchū | - see 早知今日何必當初|早知今日何必当初[zao3 zhi1 jin1 ri4 he2 bi4 dang1 chu1] |
| 早知今日何必当初 | 早知今日何必當初 | zǎozhījīnrìhébìdāngchū | - 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 |
| 格林尼治本初子午线 | 格林尼治本初子午線 | Gélínnízhìběnchūzǐwǔxiàn | - the Greenwich meridian |
| 靡不有初，鲜克有终 | 靡不有初，鮮克有終 | mǐbùyǒuchū,xiǎnkèyǒuzhōng | - almost everything has a start, but not many things have an end (idiom); don't start sth you can't handle |
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