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白手成家
bái​shǒu​chéng​jiā

to start from scratch

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
白手成家 bái​shǒu​chéng​jiā
to start from scratch
to build up an estate or a career starting with nothing but one's own efforts; to rise in life by one's own hard work

Frequency

Written text
0.005 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 白手起家 bái​shǒu​qǐ​jiā
  • 白手兴家 bái​shǒu​xīng​jiā

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)