开始
Pinyin: kāi shǐ
to begin
Example sentence
电影八点开始。
Diànyǐng bā diǎn kāishǐ.
The movie starts at eight.
What 开始 means
开始 (kāi shǐ) is a Chinese word meaning “to begin”. It belongs to the Actions & Verbs topic and appears at HSK 2 (and again in HSK 3), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.