肇端 zhàoduān

zhàoduān noun starting point; origin
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 起始 (ABC 'zhàoduān' 肇端 n, p. 1244; CC-CEDICT '肇端'; Guoyu '肇端'; NCCED '肇端', p. 2065; Mathews 1931 '肇端', p. 29)