始

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

始 (radical 38 女+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 女戈口 (VIR), four-corner 4346₀, composition ⿰女台)

1. begin, start
2. then, only then

References

• KangXi: page 258, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6166
• Dae Jaweon: page 523, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1041, character 12
• Unihan data for U+59CB

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Cantonese

Hanzi

始 (Yale chi2)

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Japanese

Kanji

始 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: はじめる (hajimeru), はじめ (hajime), はじまる (hajimaru)

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Korean

Hanja

始 (hangeul 시, revised si, McCune-Reischauer si)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

始 (pinyin shǐ (shi3), Wade-Giles shih³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

始 (thủy, thuỷ, thỉ)