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The character 始 is a phono-semantic compound with 女 (woman) as its semantic component on the left and 台 as the phonetic component on the right. The female radical evokes the concept of birth and origins, linking to the beginning of life. 始 means the start or origin of something, serving as the antonym of "end". It has consistently denoted the commencement of an action, period, or process, and often functions as an adverb meaning "only then" or "for the first time" to mark when an action begins.
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我们现在开始吧。
会议从九点开始。
他始终微笑着。
起始点在这里。
始于童年的梦想。
始创于一九九零年。
始终不懈的努力才能成功。
从开始到现在，他变化很大。