太初
tài chū
Pinyin

Definition

太初
 - 
tài chū
  1. the absolute beginning

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

初
chū
  1. 1 at first
  2. 2 (at the) beginning
  3. 3 first
  4. 4 junior
  5. 5 basic
太
tài
  1. 1 highest
  2. 2 greatest
  3. 3 too (much)
  4. 4 very
  5. 5 extremely
初一
chū yī
  1. 1 first day of lunar month
  2. 2 New Year's Day
  3. 3 first year in junior middle school
初三
chū sān
  1. 1 third year in junior middle school
初中
chū zhōng
  1. 1 junior high school
  2. 2 abbr. for 初級中學|初级中学[chū jí zhōng xué]
初二
chū èr
  1. 1 2nd year in junior middle school
  2. 2 2nd day of a lunar month
  3. 3 2nd day of lunar New Year
初恋
chū liàn
  1. 1 first love
初步
chū bù
  1. 1 initial
  2. 2 preliminary
  3. 3 tentative
初级
chū jí
  1. 1 junior
  2. 2 primary
太原
Tài yuán
  1. 1 Taiyuan prefecture level city and capital of Shanxi province 山西省 in central north China
太太
tài tai
  1. 1 married woman
  2. 2 Mrs.
  3. 3 Madam
  4. 4 wife
  5. 5 CL:個|个[gè],位[wèi]
太平
Tài píng
  1. 1 place name
太平洋
Tài píng Yáng
  1. 1 Pacific Ocean
太白
Tài bái
  1. 1 Taibai County in Baoji 寶雞|宝鸡[Bǎo jī], Shaanxi
  2. 2 Venus
太监
tài jiàn
  1. 1 court eunuch
  2. 2 palace eunuch
太过
tài guò
  1. 1 excessively
  2. 2 too
太阳
tài yang
  1. 1 sun
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
  3. 3 abbr. for 太陽穴|太阳穴[tài yáng xué]
年初
nián chū
  1. 1 beginning of the year
最初
zuì chū
  1. 1 first
  2. 2 primary
  3. 3 initial
  4. 4 original
  5. 5 at first
  6. 6 initially
  7. 7 originally
正太
zhèng tài
  1. 1 young, cute boy
  2. 2 derived from Japanese loanword shotacon 正太控[zhèng tài kòng]

Idioms (16)

初出茅庐
chū chū máo lú
  1. 1 venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom)
  2. 2 young and inexperienced
  3. 3 novice
  4. 4 greenhorn
初生之犊不畏虎
chū shēng zhī dú bù wèi hǔ
  1. 1 lit. a new-born calf has no fear of the tiger (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the fearlessness of youth
初生牛犊不怕虎
chū shēng niú dú bù pà hǔ
  1. 1 lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the young are fearless
初露头角
chū lù tóu jiǎo
  1. 1 lit. to first show one's horns (idiom); fig. a first show of emerging talent
  2. 2 first sign of emerging talent
  3. 3 budding genius
天下太平
tiān xià tài píng
  1. 1 the whole world at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity
太公钓鱼，愿者上钩
tài gōng diào yú , yuàn zhě shàng gōu
  1. 1 Jiang Ziya is fishing, if you want take the hook (idiom, refers to early sage 姜子牙 fishing with no bait and the hook above the water); to put one's head in the noose
太平盛世
tài píng shèng shì
  1. 1 peace and prosperity (idiom)
太阳从西边出来
tài yáng cóng xī biān chū lái
  1. 1 lit. the sun rises in the west (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. hell freezes over
  3. 3 pigs can fly
姜太公钓鱼，愿者上钩
Jiāng tài gōng diào yú , yuàn zhě shàng gōu
  1. 1 Jiang Ziya is fishing, if you want it, take the hook (idiom, refers to early sage 姜子牙 fishing with no bait and the hook above the water); to put one's head in the noose
悔不当初
huǐ bù dāng chū
  1. 1 to regret one's past deeds (idiom)
情窦初开
qíng dòu chū kāi
  1. 1 first awakening of love (usually of a girl) (idiom)
早知今日何必当初
zǎo zhī jīn rì hé bì dāng chū
  1. 1 if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come to this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus (idiom)
  2. 2 to regret vainly one's past behavior
欺人太甚
qī rén tài shèn
  1. 1 to bully intolerably (idiom)
皇帝不急太监急
huáng dì bù jí tài jiàn jí
  1. 1 lit. the emperor is not worried, but his eunuchs are (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the observers are more anxious than the person involved
躲得过初一，躲不过十五
duǒ de guò chū yī , duǒ bù guò shí wǔ
  1. 1 lit. you may go undetected during the new moon, but at full moon you'll be found out (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. you can't put it off forever
  3. 3 sooner or later you'll have to deal with it
靡不有初，鲜克有终
mǐ bù yǒu chū , xiǎn kè yǒu zhōng
  1. 1 almost everything has a start, but not many things have an end (idiom); don't start sth you can't handle

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