"To initiate" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 chuàng yè to begin an undertaking / to start a major task / to initiate / to venture / venture / entrepreneurship
 chàng dǎo to advocate / to initiate / to propose / to be a proponent of (an idea or school of thought)
 qǐ méng to instruct the young / to initiate / to awake sb from ignorance / to free sb from prejudice or superstition / primer / enlightened / the Enlightenment / Western learning from the late Qing dynasty
 chàng yì to suggest / to initiate / proposal / initiative
 yǐn fā to lead to / to trigger / to initiate / to cause / to evoke (emotions)
 fā qǐ to originate / to initiate / to launch (an attack, an initiative etc) / to start / to propose sth (for the first time)
 kāi chuàng to initiate / to start / to found
 chuàng shǐ to initiate / to found
 qǐ to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group
 fā duān beginning / origin / to originate / to initiate
 shǒu chàng to initiate
 fā rèn to set (sth) afoot / to initiate / beginning / origin / commencement
 zhào shǐ to initiate / to start / the start
 chuàng to begin / to initiate / to inaugurate / to start / to create
 chàng yán to propose / to put forward (an idea) / to initiate
 qǐ to open / to start / to initiate / to enlighten or awaken / to state / to inform
 chàng to initiate / to instigate / to introduce / to lead
 chàng yí initiative / to initiate / to propose (a new course of action)
 chàng shǐ to initiate
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