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初一

chū yī 1–1

first day of lunar month; New Year's Day; first year in junior middle school

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
初 · 一
Syllables
2
chū yī
Frequency
Rare
corpus count 20,062

Part of speech: n,t

Character by character

  • 初chū8 strokesHSK 3beginning, initial, primary
  • 一yī1 strokesHSK 1one; a, an; alone

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 初一. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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