当初 dāngchū▶ Original

Stroke order

当初 is written in 13 strokes across 2 characters.

• 当 — 6 strokes
• 初 — 7 strokes

Senses

1. at that time
2. originally

Related words

• 充当actuar como; servir como
• 初步preliminar
• 妥当apropiado
• 当代Contemporáneo
• 当前actual
• 当场En el acto

当初 is pronounced dāngchū and means “Original”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 当初 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.