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Definition(s) for: 吴起

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
吴起 wú qǐ - Wu Qi (440-381 BC), military leader and politician of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), author of Wuzi 吳子|吴子[Wu2 zi3], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1]
吴起 wú qǐ - Wuqi county in Yan'an 延安[Yan2 an1], Shaanxi

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 46,399 91,207

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- surname Wu
- area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai
- name of states in southern China at different historical periods
- 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 吴起

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo