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开始 kāishǐ
“to begin” — stroke-order animation and a free printable 田字格 practice sheet below.
Stroke order: 开始
Each character loops its stroke order using the open-source hanzi-writer dataset. Watch a few loops, then trace it on paper — that's how handwriting sticks.
Get your printable practice sheet
One click generates an A4 PDF with 开始 pre-filled: a light tracing row in tianzige grids, then blank guided boxes for repetition. Print it and practise with a pen.
⬇ Make a 开始 worksheet PDFExample sentence
我们开始吧。
Wǒmen kāishǐ ba.
Let's start.
Writing notes
开 is two verticals between two horizontals — pure grid symmetry. 始 pairs the woman radical 女 with a platform 台. A natural "first page of the notebook" word.
Why a paper sheet instead of an app? HSK 2 exams test writing from memory, not tapping. Muscle memory for 开始 comes from tracing it in tianzige grids until the proportions land inside the cross guides every time — usually ten to twenty printed repetitions.