开始
Meaning
- to begin
- beginning
- to start
Measure word
个 gè
Example sentence
我开始跑。
I began running.
Characters in 开始
- 开 kāi to open (transitive or intransitive)
- 始 shǐ to begin, to start; the beginning
开 to open plus 始, to begin. 开 is one of the busiest characters in the language — 开门, 开车, 开会 — while 始 survives mostly here and in 始终.