始

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

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始 (radical 38 女+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 女戈口 (VIR), four-corner 4346₀, composition ⿰女台)

1. begin, start
2. then, only then

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 258, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6166
• Dae Jaweon: page 523, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1041, character 12
• Unihan data for U+59CB

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

始 (Yale chi2)

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[edit] Japanese

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始 (grade 3 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: はじめる (hajimeru), はじめ (hajime), はじまる (hajimaru)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

始 (hangeul 시, revised si, McCune-Reischauer si)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

始 (pinyin shǐ (shi3), Wade-Giles shih³)

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[edit] Vietnamese

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始 (thủy, thuỷ, thỉ)