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Chinese symbol for “initialize”

初始化
chū shǐ huà
(computing) to initialize; initialization

The closest CC-CEDICT match for initialize is 初始化 (chū shǐ huà), defined as: (computing) to initialize; initialization.

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Characters and stroke order

初 chū
beginning, initial, primary
radical 18 ⼑ · 8 strokes
始 shǐ
to begin, to start; beginning
radical 38 ⼥ · 8 strokes
化 huà
to change, to convert, to reform; -ize
radical 21 ⼔ · 4 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 初始化.

WordPinyinMeaning
当初 (當初)dāng chūat that time; originally
初期chū qīinitial stage; beginning period
最初zuì chūfirst; primary
年初nián chūbeginning of the year
初步chū bùinitial; preliminary
初中chū zhōngjunior high school (abbr. for 初级中学 (chū jí zhōng xué))
开始 (開始)kāi shǐto begin; to start; beginning; start
始终 (始終)shǐ zhōngfrom beginning to end; all along
文化wén huàculture; civilization

See also: Japanese symbol for “initialize”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.