开始 — stroke order
Learn how to write 开始 (kāishǐ), which means “to begin”. It is written with 2 characters and 12 strokes in total. In traditional Chinese it is written 開始. Each character below is animated in the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap any character to replay it, or use “Play all strokes” to watch the whole word written in order.
Character by character
| Character | Pinyin | 注音 | Meaning | Strokes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 开 | kāi | ㄎㄞ | to open | 4 |
| 始 | shǐ | ㄕˇ | to begin, to start | 8 |