始
shǐ HSK3

begin

始 shǐ
to begin verb
(bound form) to begin; to start; to initiate

暴力始于语言。

bào​lì shǐ yú yǔ​yán.

Violence begins with language.

减少风险始于聪明的选择。

jiǎn​shǎo fēng​xiǎn shǐ yú cōng​ming de xuǎn​zé.

Reducing your risk starts with smart choices.

beginning nounadverb
(bound form) the beginning; the start; the origin
initial adjective
(bound form) earliest; first; initial
only then
(written) only then; not until then
Shi
the surname Shi
originally
(literary) originally; at first; initially
ever
(literary) ever; once (often used in the negative 未始 wèi​shǐ meaning never)

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Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
381st most common 583.9 per million
Movie subtitles
242nd most common 719.0 per million appears in 96% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.43 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
59.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+59CB

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)