







at the beginning
initially
in the beginning
originally
There has been a busy start to polling in today's local elections.
The talks had been hard going at the start.

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Open the tool →开始时 (kāi shǐ shí) means “at the beginning, initially, in the beginning, originally”.
开始时 is pronounced kāi shǐ shí in Mandarin Chinese.
“at the beginning” is 开始时 (kāi shǐ shí) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 开始时, each with pinyin and an English translation.