Read Edit View history 另起炉灶 lìngqǐlúzào start over Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 另起炉灶 (另起爐灶) lìngqǐlúzào start over idiom to start from scratch or return to square one after a previous attempt has failed or been abandoned strike out anew idiom to start on a new path or set up a separate organization, often departing from an original group or method Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.456 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
另起炉灶 (另起爐灶) lìngqǐlúzào start over idiom to start from scratch or return to square one after a previous attempt has failed or been abandoned strike out anew idiom to start on a new path or set up a separate organization, often departing from an original group or method Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.456 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)