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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 起诉

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
起诉 qǐ sù - to sue
- to bring a lawsuit against
- to prosecute

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
- 6 1,527 4,946 10,488

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
- variant of 訴|诉[su4]
- to complain
- to sue
- to tell

Other Words Containing 起诉

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
起诉 - 6 1,527 4,946 10,488
起诉书 - - 19,614 22,753 58,188