初步 chūbù▶ preliminar

Stroke order

初步 is written in 14 strokes across 2 characters.

• 初 — 7 strokes
• 步 — 7 strokes

Senses

1. initial
2. preliminary
3. tentative

Related words

• 地步condición; apuro; situación; estado; extensión
• 当初Original
• 步伐paso
• 让步ceder; conceder a
• 起初al principio
• 最初Primero, al principio

初步 is pronounced chūbù and means “preliminar”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 初步 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.