始终如一 — Chinese idiom
始终如一
shǐ zhōng rú yī
Traditional: 始終如一
Meaning
- unswerving from start to finish
Character by character
- 始shǐto begin, to start; beginning
- 终zhōngend; finally, in the end
- 如rúas, as if, like, such as, supposing
- 一yīone; a, an; alone
Idioms sharing a character
- 一元复始 yī yuán fù shǐ
- 善始善终 shàn shǐ shàn zhōng
- 报本反始 bào běn fǎn shǐ
- 始作俑者 shǐ zuò yǒng zhě
- 有始有终 yǒu shǐ yǒu zhōng
- 有始无终 yǒu shǐ wú zhōng
- 终而复始 zhōng ér fù shǐ
- 自始至终 zì shǐ zhì zhōng
- 周而复始 zhōu ér fù shǐ
- 不知所终 bù zhī suǒ zhōng
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