"(at the) beginning" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 片头 | piàn tóu | opening titles (of movie) / leader (blank film at the beginning and end of a reel) |  |
| 虚岁 | xū suì | one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) &ndash / In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4] | |
| 发语辞 | fā yǔ cí | literary auxiliary particle, comes at the beginning of a sentence | |
| 谨启 | jǐn qǐ | to respectfully inform (used at the beginning or end of letters) | |
