Tiếng ViệtTiếng Việt▼
最初 Đầu tiên; Lúc ban đầu
Stroke order
最初 is written in 19 strokes across 2 characters.

- 最 — 12 strokes
- 初 — 7 strokes
Senses
- first
- primary
- initial
- original
- at first
- initially
- originally
Related words
最初 is pronounced zuìchū and means “Đầu tiên; Lúc ban đầu”. It belongs to the HSK 5 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 最初 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.