初
chū HSK3

beginning

初 chū
beginning locativenoun
(bound form) the early part of a time period; at the start of a year, month, or season

今年初，她决定找份新工作。

jīn​nián chū, tā jué​dìng zhǎo fèn xīn gōng​zuò.

Early this year, she decided to look for a new job.

这一估计要比起初的那个更准确。

zhè yī gū​jì yào bǐ​qǐ chū de nà​ge gèng zhǔn​què.

This estimate is more accurate than the original estimate.

first adjective
first in order; primary; the first of a series

想想你的初吻。

xiǎng xiang nǐ de chū wěn.

Think of your first kiss.

just nounadjective
happening for the first time or having just started to occur
original adverb
(bound form) original; previous; relating to one's initial state of mind or intention
elementary nounadjective
(bound form) elementary; basic; the lowest level in a hierarchy of grades
lunar month prefix
prefix used before the numbers one through ten to denote the first ten days of a lunar month
surname
a Chinese surname
not at all
(literary) used before a negative to mean at all or in the first place

Frequency
Character
Written text
667th most common 302.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,136th most common 79.8 per million appears in 36% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
25.7 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
123.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+521D

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