







beginning
opening
prologue
The newspaper article was the opening salvo in what proved to be a long battle.
The book opens with an explanation of why some drugs are banned.

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Open the tool →开篇 (kāi piān) means “beginning, opening, prologue”.
开篇 is pronounced kāi piān in Mandarin Chinese.
“beginning” is 开篇 (kāi piān) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 开篇, each with pinyin and an English translation.