更始
 gēng shǐ
 Pinyin
Definition
更始
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              - to make a new start
 - to regenerate
 
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to change or replace
 - 2 to experience
 - 3 one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided
 - 4 watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard)
 
- 1 to replace the old with new
 - 2 to renew
 - 3 to renovate
 - 4 to upgrade
 - 5 to update
 - 6 to regenerate
 
- 1 from beginning to end
 - 2 all along
 
- 1 more (than sth else)
 - 2 even more
 
Idioms (20)
一元复始
  - 1 a new year begins (idiom)
 
善始善终
  - 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.
 
报本反始
  - 1 ensure that you pay debts of gratitude (idiom)
 
始作俑者
  - 1 lit. the first person to bury funerary dolls (idiom)
 - 2 fig. the originator of an evil practice
 
始料未及
  - 1 not expected at the outset (idiom)
 - 2 unforeseen
 - 3 to be surprised by the turn of events