"Begin" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 开始 | kāi shǐ | to begin / beginning / to start / initial / CL:個|个[ge4] |   |
| 掀起 | xiān qǐ | to lift / to raise in height / to begin / upsurge / to set off (a campaign) | |
| 入手 | rù shǒu | to begin / to set one's hand to | |
| 开场 | kāi chǎng | to begin / to open / to start / beginning of an event | |
| 兴办 | xīng bàn | to begin / to set in motion | |
| 开演 | kāi yǎn | (of a play, movie etc) to begin | |
| 始 |  shǐ | to begin / to start / then / only then | |
| 创 | chuàng | to begin / to initiate / to inaugurate / to start / to create | |
| 谡 | sù | composed / rise / to begin | |
| 俶 | chù | to begin | |
| 昉 | fǎng | dawn / to begin | |
| 创业 | chuàng yè | to begin an undertaking / to start a major task / to initiate / to venture / venture / entrepreneurship | |
| 开机 | kāi jī | to start an engine / to boot up (a computer) / to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete / to begin shooting a film or TV show | |
| 大作 | dà zuò | your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific) / to erupt / to begin abruptly | |
| 开工 | kāi gōng | to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation) / to start a construction job | |
| 开庭 | kāi tíng | to begin a (judicial) court session | |
| 开拍 | kāi pāi | to begin shooting (a movie, a scene of a movie etc) / to start the bidding (auction) / to start a trading session (stock market) | |
| 起家 | qǐ jiā | to start out by / to grow an enterprise beginning with / to begin one's career by | |
| 蠢蠢欲动 | chǔn chǔn yù dòng | to begin to stir (idiom) / to get restless / to become threatening | |
| 开讲 | kāi jiǎng | to begin a lecture / to start on a story | |
| 迿 | xùn | to be the first to begin a quarrel | |
| 有眉目 | yǒu méi mù | to begin to take shape / to be about to materialize | |
| 有边儿 | yǒu biān r | to be likely or possible / to begin to take shape / to be likely to succeed | |
| 开蒙 | kāi méng | (old) (of a child) to begin schooling | |
| 零声母 | líng shēng mǔ | (Chinese linguistics) zero initial (the initial of a syllable that does not begin with a consonant) | |
| 权舆 | quán yú | to sprout / (fig). to begin / beginning | |
| 麻麻亮 | mā ma liàng | (dialect) to begin to dawn / to be just getting light | |
