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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
开端
start
IN A VIDEO开端
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
start
02
beginning
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 开端 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 开端 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
It's a good start.
Science begins when you ask why and how.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 开端.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 开端.
Directly before
- 的开端3
- 何以开端1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 开端
What does 开端 mean in Chinese?
开端 (kāiduān) means start.
How do you pronounce 开端?
开端 is pronounced kāiduān.
Is 开端 an HSK word?
开端 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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