"To initiate" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 倡导 | chàng dǎo | to advocate / to initiate / to propose / to be a proponent of (an idea or school of thought) |   |
| 启蒙 | qǐ méng | to instruct the young / to initiate / to awake sb from ignorance / to free sb from prejudice or superstition / primer / enlightened / the Enlightenment / Western learning from the late Qing dynasty | |
| 倡议 | chàng yì | to suggest / to initiate / proposal / initiative | |
| 引发 | yǐn fā | to lead to / to trigger / to initiate / to cause / to evoke (emotions) | |
| 提起 | tí qǐ | to mention / to bring up / (lit. and fig.) to lift / to raise / to initiate (legal proceedings) | |
| 发起 | fā qǐ | to originate / to initiate / to launch (an attack, an initiative etc) / to start / to propose sth (for the first time) | |
| 开创 | kāi chuàng | to initiate / to start / to found | |
| 创始 | chuàng shǐ | to initiate / to found | |
| 起 |  qǐ | to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group | |
| 发端 | fā duān | to originate / to initiate / beginning / origin | |
| 首倡 | shǒu chàng | to initiate | |
| 发轫 | fā rèn | to set (sth) afoot / to initiate / beginning / origin / commencement | |
| 肇始 | zhào shǐ | to initiate / to start / the start | |
| 创 | chuàng | to initiate / to create / to achieve (sth for the first time) | |
| 倡言 | chàng yán | to propose / to put forward (an idea) / to initiate | |
| 启 | qǐ | to open / to start / to initiate / to enlighten or awaken / to state / to inform | |
| 倡 | chàng | to initiate / to instigate / to introduce / to lead | |
| 倡仪 | chàng yí | initiative / to initiate / to propose (a new course of action) | |
| 倡始 | chàng shǐ | to initiate | |
