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Mandarin · Pinyin

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English

  1. beginning, initial, primary
  2. (bound form) at first; initially
  3. early; the beginning of
  4. a prefix before numerals 一 one to 十 ten, to indicate the first ten days in a month in the lunar calendar
  5. (bound form) first; early
  6. for the first time
  7. (bound form) (in lunar calendar dates, before numerals 1–10) days 1 to 10 of a month, as in 初三[chu1 san1] "the third"
  8. just beginning to; just happened
  9. elementary; junior

粵語

  1. 開始,開端,開頭
  2. 用喺數詞「一」至「十」前面,表示農曆每個月頭十日
  3. 第一次
  4. 啱啱,剛才,唔係好耐之前
  5. 一個比較低嘅階段

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