开始 kāishǐ▶ empezar, comenzar

Stroke order

开始 is written in 12 strokes across 2 characters.

• 开 — 4 strokes
• 始 — 8 strokes

Senses

1. to begin; to start
2. beginning; start

Example sentences

• 我们什么时候开始？Wǒmen shénme shíhou kāishǐ?When do we begin?
• 现在开始上课。Xiànzài kāishǐ shàng kè.Now let's begin the lesson.

Related words

• 开abrir
• 离开dejar; salir
• 开心Feliz
• 开玩笑Burlarse de
• 公开abrir
• 召开convocar

开始 is pronounced kāishǐ and means “empezar, comenzar”. It belongs to the HSK 2 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 开始 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.