1 to begin

2 beginning

3 to start

4 initial

5 classifier: 个 gè

1 outset

2 beginning

1 to freeze

2 to solidify

3 to congeal

4 fig. with rapt attention

1 creator

2 founder

3 initiator

1 first

2 original

3 primitive

4 original (document etc)

1 a new year begins (idiom)

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.

1 secure as a city protected by a wall of metal and a moat of boiling water (idiom)

2 well fortified

3 invulnerable to attack

1 ensure that you pay debts of gratitude (idiom)

1 lit. the first person to bury funerary dolls (idiom)

2 fig. the originator of an evil practice