Read Edit View history 起家 qǐjiā to build up Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 起家 qǐ//jiā to build up adjective to start out; to build up a family fortune or a business enterprise from scratch success the beginning of one's success; the start of a career to rise from the masses (archaic) to rise from a commoner background to hold an official position Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 0.890 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 2.90 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
起家 qǐ//jiā to build up adjective to start out; to build up a family fortune or a business enterprise from scratch success the beginning of one's success; the start of a career to rise from the masses (archaic) to rise from a commoner background to hold an official position Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 0.890 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 2.90 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)