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1 People 2 Family Members 3 Getting to know others 4 At school 5 Countries and Languages 6 Reading and writing 7 Numbers 8 The time 9 Days of the week 10 Yesterday – today – tomorrow 11 Months 12 Beverages 13 Activities 14 Colors 15 Fruits and food 16 Seasons and Weather 17 Around the house 18 House cleaning 19 In the kitchen 20 Small Talk 1 21 Small Talk 2 22 Small Talk 3 23 Learning foreign languages 24 Appointment 25 In the city 26 In nature 27 In the hotel – Arrival 28 In the hotel – Complaints 29 At the restaurant 1 30 At the restaurant 2 31 At the restaurant 3 32 At the restaurant 4 33 At the train station 34 On the train 35 At the airport 36 Public transportation 37 En route 38 In the taxi 39 Car breakdown 40 Asking for directions 41 Where is ... ? 42 City tour 43 At the zoo 44 Going out in the evening 45 At the cinema 46 In the discotheque 47 Preparing a trip 48 Vacation activities 49 Sports 50 In the swimming pool 51 Running errands 52 In the department store 53 Shops 54 Shopping 55 Working 56 Feelings 57 At the doctor 58 Parts of the body 59 At the post office 60 At the bank 61 Ordinal numbers 62 Asking questions 1 63 Asking questions 2 64 Negation 1 65 Negation 2 66 Possessive pronouns 1 67 Possessive pronouns 2 68 big – small 69 to need – to want to 70 to like something 71 to want something 72 to have to do something / must 73 to be allowed to 74 asking for something 75 giving reasons 1 76 giving reasons 2 77 giving reasons 3 78 Adjectives 1 79 Adjectives 2 80 Adjectives 3 81 Past tense 1 82 Past tense 2 83 Past tense 3 84 Past tense 4 85 Questions – Past tense 1 86 Questions – Past tense 2 87 Past tense of modal verbs 1 88 Past tense of modal verbs 2 89 Imperative 1 90 Imperative 2 91 Subordinate clauses: that 1 92 Subordinate clauses: that 2 93 Subordinate clauses: if 94 Conjunctions 1 95 Conjunctions 2 96 Conjunctions 3 97 Conjunctions 4 98 Double connectors 99 Genitive 100 Adverbs

14 Old HSK word(s): 哎 ** B ai1 1. hey, used at the beginning of a sentence to greet sb, or catch sb´s attention 2. used at the end of a sentence to express one´s astonishment or dissatisfaction 哎呀 ** B ai1ya1 1. oh, used at the beginning of a sentence to express one´s surprise 2. used at the beginning of a sentence to express one´s disgust, pain or displeasure 始终 ** B shi3zhong1 from beginning to end 哎哟 ** C ai1yo1 1. used at the beginning of a sentence to express one´s astonishment or pain etc. 端 ** C duan1 extremity/ end/ beginning/ reason/ cause 向来 ** C xiang4lai2 from beginning coming towards now/ always/ all along 起初 ** C qi3chu1 at first/ in the beginning/ originally 初期 ** C chu1qi1 beginning period/ early days/ initial stage 当初 ** C dang1chu1 in the beginning/ at that time/ originally 自始至终 ** C zi1 shi3 zhi4 zhong1 from-beginning-to-end/ from start to finish 从头 ** D cong2tou2 from the beginning 开天辟地 ** D kai1 tian1 pi4 di4 since the beginning of the history/ the creation of the world 开头 ** D kai1tou2 beginning 起点 ** D qi3dian3 beginning

起 rise, stand up / go up / begin

点 dot, speck, spot / point, degree

around, from beginning to end, altogether beginning of the year from beginning to end, around beginning-stages, preliminary ~阶段 the beginning stages || ~印象 (yìnxiàng) first impression || ~很着急 panicked from the beginning from the beginning from beginning to end, all along 049 Thing, course 事情, 过程 (shìqíng, guòchéng)

12 前后 [-後] qiánhòu (before-after) around, from beginning to end, altogether: 春节~ around the spring festival || 这篇小说从写作到完成, ~用了一年的时间. The novel took a year to write altogether, from start to finish || 他~ 去过中国四五次. He has been to China four or five times altogether. '

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nguyên beginning Anfang 元  元  元

Hsk Characters:

HSK -Characters and beyond:

30 Languages	Chinese	Vietnamese

Gb	Big5	Eng	Rad	Mega	Triple
初 +	初 + +	beginning, initial, primary	刀	刀	Knife 刀 (MESSER) chu1

BEGINNING: The beginning of an activity or event. Time

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beginning: (act of doing that which begins anything)

Anfang {m}, Beginn {m}

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beginning: (initial portion of some extended thing)

Anfang {m}

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beginning: (that which begins or originates something)

Beginn {m}

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beginning: (that which is begun)

Angefangene {n}, Begonnene {n}

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beginning: (act of doing that which begins anything)

Anfang {m}, Beginn {m}

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beginning: (initial portion of some extended thing)

Anfang {m}

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beginning: (that which begins or originates something)

Beginn {m}

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beginning: (that which is begun)

Angefangene {n}, Begonnene {n}

2000 Words

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0373
Băng và tuyết đang bắt đầu tan.
The ice and snow are beginning to melt.
Das Eis und der Schnee beginnen zu schmelzen.
El hielo y la nieve están empezando a derretirse.
La glace et la neige commencent à fondre.
Il ghiaccio e la neve stanno iniziando a sciogliersi.
น้ำแข็งและหิมะเริ่มละลาย
얼음과 눈이 녹기 시작했습니다.
冰雪開始融化了。
冰雪 开始 融化 了 。

335 最初: first, outset: Please look at the beginning of page 5. 2133 大体: about, anyway: It was a far-fetched plan from the beginning anyway. 2284 月初め: the beginning of the month: I always meet him at the beginning of the month. 3190 返る: return, go back: Let's go back to the beginning and think again. 5692 上旬: the first ten days (of a month): There is a summer festival at the beginning of July. 6111 開幕: rising of the curtain: It is only a short time until the beginning of the Olympics. 6370 初心: one's original intention: I will go back to the beginning and study it again. 6702 そもそも: in the first place: He wasn't suited to this work from the beginning. 8862 飽き: weariness: I am beginning to get tired of my current lifestyle. 9490 遡る: go back over: The beginning of the story goes back 200 years.

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