原始 yuánshǐ▶ Asli

Stroke order

原始 is written in 18 strokes across 2 characters.

• 原 — 10 strokes
• 始 — 8 strokes

Senses

1. first
2. original
3. primitive
4. original (document etc)

Related words

• 原先Asli
• 原告penuduh
• 原理prinsip
• 平原polos
• 还原pengurangan
• 原则Prinsip

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