Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- shǐ
English
- begin, start
- to begin
- to begin; to start; to originate
- then, only then
- to start
- then
- only then
粵語
- 開頭;首先;開始;第一個做或者出現;之前從未試過
As a component in
Words containing 始
- 開始hoi1 ci2
to begin; to start
- 始祖ci2 zou2
primogenitor
- 始終ci2 zung1
from beginning to end
- 原始jyun4 ci2
first
- 創始cong3 ci2
to initiate; to found
- 起始hei2 ci2
to begin; to start
- 始末ci2 mut6
whole story
- 秦始皇ceon4 ci2 wong4
Qin Shihuang (259-210 BC), the first emperor
- 始於ci2 jyu1
to begin with; to start with
- 始發ci2 faat3
(of trains etc) to set off (on a journey)
- 更始gang1 ci2
to make a new start
- 始創ci2 cong3
to initiate; to create (first)
- 自始至終zi6 ci2 zi3 zung1
from start to finish (idiom)
- 固始gu3 ci2
see 固始縣|固始县[Gu4 shi3 Xian4]
- 貫徹始終gun3 cit3 ci2 zung1
to follow through; to carry through to the end
- 原始林jyun4 ci2 lam4
old growth forest
- 始終如一ci2 zung1 jyu4 jat1
unswerving from start to finish (idiom)
- 始建ci2 gin3
to start building
- 旬始ceon4 ci2
comet from Saturn, traditionally described as yellow
- 肇始siu6 ci2
to initiate
- 初始co1 ci2
initial
- 創始者cong3 ci2 ze2
creator; initiator
- 自始zi6 ci2
from the outset
- 始點ci2 dim2
starting point