# 始 U+59CB CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59CB

A Chinese character meaning “begin, start; then, only then”, read shǐ in Mandarin.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `始` |
| Codepoint | U+59CB |
| Name | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59CB |
| Block | [CJK Unified Ideographs](https://unicodekit.com/block/cjk-unified-ideographs) |
| Script | Han |
| Category | Other Letter (Lo) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `始` `始` |
| CSS | `\59CB` |
| JavaScript | `\u59CB` |
| UTF-8 | E5 A7 8B |
| UTF-16 | 59CB |
| Definition | begin, start; then, only then |
| Mandarin | shǐ |
| Cantonese | ci2 |
| Japanese | SHI HAJIMERU HAJIME HAJIMARU |
| Korean | SI |

## Related characters

- 姊 [U+59CA CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59CA](https://unicodekit.com/char/59CA)
- 姌 [U+59CC CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59CC](https://unicodekit.com/char/59CC)
- 姉 [U+59C9 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59C9](https://unicodekit.com/char/59C9)
- 姍 [U+59CD CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59CD](https://unicodekit.com/char/59CD)
- 姈 [U+59C8 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59C8](https://unicodekit.com/char/59C8)
- 姎 [U+59CE CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59CE](https://unicodekit.com/char/59CE)
- 姇 [U+59C7 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59C7](https://unicodekit.com/char/59C7)
- 姏 [U+59CF CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59CF](https://unicodekit.com/char/59CF)
- 姆 [U+59C6 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59C6](https://unicodekit.com/char/59C6)
- 姐 [U+59D0 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59D0](https://unicodekit.com/char/59D0)
- 姅 [U+59C5 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59C5](https://unicodekit.com/char/59C5)
- 姑 [U+59D1 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59D1](https://unicodekit.com/char/59D1)

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