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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 白手起家
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 白手起家 | bái shǒu - qǐ jiā | - (idiom) to build up from nothing; to start from scratch |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 17,019 | 35,197 | 26,551 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 白 | bái | - surname Bai |
| 白 | bái | - white - snowy - pure - bright - empty - blank - plain - clear - to make clear - in vain - gratuitous - free of charge - reactionary - anti-communist - funeral - to stare coldly - to write wrong character - to state - to explain - vernacular - spoken lines in opera |
| 手 | shǒu | - hand - (formal) to hold - person engaged in certain types of work - person skilled in certain types of work - personal(ly) - convenient - classifier for skill - CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1] |
| 起 | qǐ | - 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 |
| 家 | jiā | - home - family - (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) - classifier for families or businesses - refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China - noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 家 | jiā | - used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1ju4] |
Other Words Containing 白手起家
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 白手起家 | - | - | 17,019 | 35,197 | 26,551 |