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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 不起

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)

List Ranking:

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HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 1,792 527

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- no; not so
- (bound form) not; un-
- to rise
- to raise
- to get up
- to set out
- to start
- to appear
- to launch
- to initiate (action)
- to draft
- to establish
- to get (from a depot or counter)
- verb suffix, to start
- starting from (a time, place, price etc)
- classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
- classifier for groups: batch, group

Other Words Containing 不起

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
对不起 1 1 200 2,956 1,059
了不起 5 4 2,202 9,552 5,992
不起眼 - 8 12,809 18,095 15,507
瞧不起 - 8 13,023 20,210 11,967
买不起 - 8 16,283 13,032 6,565
看不起 5 4 17,841 12,469 6,609
经不起 - - 20,989 17,432 9,347
禁不起 - - 35,117 - -
惹不起 - - 40,108 31,620 14,743
一病不起 - - 58,752 60,690 34,302