1 to begin

2 beginning

3 to start

4 initial

5 classifier: 个 gè

1 outset

2 beginning

1 creator

2 founder

3 initiator

1 first

2 original

3 primitive

4 original (document etc)

1 friendly

1 a new year begins (idiom)

1 to be nothing to write home about (idiom)

1 He who comes is surely ill-intentioned, no-one well-meaning will come (idiom).

2 Be careful not to trust foreigners.

3 Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!

1 to encourage virtue and punish evil (idiom); fig. poetic justice

2 you get what's coming to you

1 where there's a start, there's a finish (idiom); to finish once one starts sth

2 to carry things through

3 I started, so I'll finish.