초반

choban · [초반]

early stage · initial phase

nounIntermediate

Meanings

  1. early stage; initial phaseThe first stage of a task or a time period.

Written Forms

초반Hangul
初盤Hanja

Examples from Lessons (3)

Min-woo, the protagonist, looks very tired and exhausted at the beginning of the drama.

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You could say that initial planning is that important for increasing the credibility of a thesis.

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The protagonist acted so selfishly in the beginning, but by the end, he became a completely different person.

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Korean definitions, pronunciations and learner levels are from the Basic Korean Dictionary (한국어기초사전) by the National Institute of Korean Language, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 KR.

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