at first / (at the) beginning / first / junior / basic

= + : Back in the days when Chantal Chicken first arrived at the space station as the first junior scientist, she tried really hard to make a good first impression and put on a royal ermine coat. Just to be save she hid a cleaver behind her back just in case she wouldn't be received well.

初 character breakdown

knife / blade / single-edged sword / cutlass / CL:把[ba3] / (slang) dollar (loanword) / classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper) / classifier for knife cuts or stabs

= + 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: 刀 looks like a cleaver (while 刂 looks like a kitchen knife).

Don Quixote (d) serves his good deed of the day in front of the aorta (ao1). In order to feed the people, he uses a plow (㇆) to dig up bananas (丿), and cuts them into slices with a broad cleaver (刀).
the left-radical form of Kangxi radical 145, 衣[yi1]

= + 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: a royal ermine coat.

Maud Younger used to wear a monk's cowl when leaving the space station, but when she got a royal ermine coat she gladly threw the monk's cowl out. Nowadays she uses to wave a petal leaf matching her new coat.

Characters with 初 as component

初 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 初

originally / at first / at the outset
original intention
first day of lunar month / New Year's Day / first year in junior middle school
early summer
to regret one's past deeds (idiom)
see 躲得過初一,躲不過十五|躲得过初一,躲不过十五[duo3 de5 guo4 chu1 yi1 , duo3 bu4 guo4 shi2 wu3]
at the outset / at first / early
erroneous variant of 阿閦佛, Aksobhya, the imperturbable ruler of Eastern Paradise, Abhirati
almost everything has a start, but not many things have an end (idiom); don't start sth you can't handle
lit. you may go undetected during the new moon, but at full moon you'll be found out (idiom) / fig. you can't put it off forever / sooner or later you'll have to deal with it

Sentences with 初

初 currently does not appear in any sentence.