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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 起家

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
起家 qǐ jiā - to start out by
- to grow an enterprise beginning with
- to begin one's career by

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
- - 22,257 19,957 26,981

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- 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
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]
jiā- used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1ju4]

Other Words Containing 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
起家 - - 22,257 19,957 26,981