







from the start
from the beginning
from square one
The marriage was doomed from the start.
We'd agreed from the beginning not to tie each other down.

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Open the tool →从一开始 (cóng yì kāi shǐ) means “from the start, from the beginning, from square one”.
从一开始 is pronounced cóng yì kāi shǐ in Mandarin Chinese.
“from the start” is 从一开始 (cóng yì kāi shǐ) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 从一开始, each with pinyin and an English translation.