I wish I had bought a ticket for the concert.
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当初
Traditional: 當初
dāng chū
HSK 3.0 · 3HSK 2.0 · 6
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dāng chū · dong1 co1 (Jyutping)
- at that time
- originally
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Character breakdown
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
If it had not been for civil war, they would be wealthy now.
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