肇端

zhè chǎng nèi zhàn zhào duān yú zhǒng zú zhī jiān de jǐn zhāng jú shì

这场内战肇端于种族之间的紧张局势。

It was against this backdrop of racial tension that the civil war began.

zhào duān jiào zǎo

肇端较早

origin early