Chinese mnemonics and annotator
Matthews
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初 chū beginning
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#439
Chapter-25 HSK-A
7 strokes
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Compositions
Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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Ch'u is composed of 刀 tao knife as radical, and 衣 i clothes (衤 in combination), and is said to derive its meaning from the application of a knife or scissors to a piece of new cloth. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
初
chū
at first/(at the) beginning/first/junior/basic
Phrases ending with the given character
凌凌líng
蒙濛méng
初初chū
Ling Mengchu (1580-1644), Ming dynasty novelist and dramatist/also written 凌蒙初
凌líng
蒙méng
初chū
Ling Mengchu (1580-1644), Ming dynasty novelist and dramatist/also written 凌濛初
年nián
代dài
初chū
beginning of an age/beginning of a decade
张張zhāng
静靜jìng
初初chū
Zhang Jingchu (1980-), PRC actress