白手起家 báishǒuqǐjiā start from scratch Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 白手起家 báishǒuqǐjiā start from scratch idiom to build up from nothing; to start from scratch 他白手起家，凭借自己的努力建立了一个商业帝国。 tā báishǒuqǐjiā, píngjiè zìjǐ de nǔlì jiànlì le yī gè shāngyè dìguó. He started from scratch and built a business empire through his own efforts. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.49 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.11 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
白手起家 báishǒuqǐjiā start from scratch idiom to build up from nothing; to start from scratch 他白手起家，凭借自己的努力建立了一个商业帝国。 tā báishǒuqǐjiā, píngjiè zìjǐ de nǔlì jiànlì le yī gè shāngyè dìguó. He started from scratch and built a business empire through his own efforts. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.49 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.11 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
