| chū | at first/(at the) beginning/first/junior/basic |
| 初 | at first (at the) beginning first |
| 初一 | first day of lunar month New Year's Day |
| 初中 | junior high school |
| 初中生 | a junior school student |
| 初乳 | colostrum; beastings; foremilk; first milk; fore milk; neogala; protogala; colostral milk |
| 初亏 | beginning of partial eclipse; eclipse beginning; first contact of umbra; first contact |
| 初交 | new acquaintance; acquaintance |
| 初产 | primiparity |
| 初产妇 | primipara; unipara |
| 初产的 | primiparous; uniparous |
| 初伏 | middle ten days of July, the first of 三伏 sān fú, three hottest periods of the year |
| 初会 | first meeting |
| 初值 | initial value; starting value; provisional value |
| 初具规模 | begin to take shape |
| 初冬 | early winter |
| 初几 | Any day between the first and the tenth day of a month. |
| 初出茅庐 | quite inexperienced in society |
| 初创 | startup (company, phase etc) newly established in the early stages |
| 初创公司 | new company newly established enterprise |
| 初刻拍案惊奇 | Slap the table in amazement, Part I first of two books of stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌蒙初 |