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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 起色
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 起色 | qǐ sè | - a turn for the better - to pick up - to improve |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 22,034 | 22,257 | 33,443 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 色 | sè | - color - CL:種|种[zhong3] - look - appearance - sex |
| 色 | shǎi | - (coll.) color - used in 色子[shai3zi5] |
Other Words Containing 起色
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 起色 | - | - | 22,034 | 22,257 | 33,443 |