肇

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at first; devise; originate

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning
交通肇事罪	jiāo tōng zhào shì zuì	culpable driving causing serious damage or injury
肇东市	Zhào dōng Shì	Zhaodong, a county-level city in Suihua City 綏化市\|绥化市[Sui2 hua4 Shi4], Heilongjiang
肇州县	Zhào zhōu Xiàn	Zhaozhou, a county in Daqing City 大慶市\|大庆市[Da4 qing4 Shi4], Heilongjiang
肇事者	zhào shì zhě	offender; culprit
肇庆大学	Zhào qìng Dà xué	Zhaoqing University (Guangdong)
肇源县	Zhào yuán Xiàn	Zhaoyuan, a county in Daqing City 大慶市\|大庆市[Da4 qing4 Shi4], Heilongjiang
丁肇中	Dīng Zhào zhōng	Samuel C. C. Ting (1936-), American physicist, 1976 Nobel Prize laureate in physics
李肇星	Lǐ Zhào xīng	Li Zhaoxing (1940-), former PRC foreign minister
肇庆市	Zhào qìng Shì	Zhaoqing, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province 廣東省\|广东省[Guang3 dong1 Sheng3]
肇事	zhào shì	to cause an accident; to be responsible for an incident; to provoke a disturbance
肇东	Zhào dōng	see 肇東市\|肇东市[Zhao4 dong1 Shi4]
肇州	Zhào zhōu	see 肇州縣\|肇州县[Zhao4 zhou1 Xian4]
肇源	Zhào yuán	see 肇源縣\|肇源县[Zhao4 yuan2 Xian4]
肇事逃逸	zhào shì táo yì	hit-and-run
肇建	zhào jiàn	(literary) to establish; to found (a country etc); to initiate construction (of sth large-…
肇因	zhào yīn	cause; origin
肇端	zhào duān	the starting point
肇庆	Zhào qìng	see 肇慶市\|肇庆市[Zhao4 qing4 Shi4]
肇始	zhào shǐ	to initiate; to start; the start
肇祸	zhào huò	to cause an accident