初期 (chū qī) means “initial stage; beginning period”. It is an HSK 5 Chinese word in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
项目还处于初期阶段发展。
Zhège xiàngmù hái chǔyú chūqī jiēduàn, yǒu hěn duō gōngzuò yào zuò.
This project is still in the initial stage, and there is a lot of work to be done.
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