起飞

Character by character

• 起qǐ10 strokesHSK 1rise, stand up; go up; begin
• 飞fēi3 strokesHSK 1 traditional 飛fly; go quickly; dart; high

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 起飞. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 起来qǐ laiHSK 1

  to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qǐ lái]

• 一起yī qǐHSK 1

  in the same place; together; with; altogether (in total)

• 起qǐHSK 1

  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

• 飞fēiHSK 1

  to fly

• 飞机fēi jīHSK 1

  airplane

• 引起yǐn qǐHSK 4

  to give rise to; to lead to; to cause; to arouse

• 对不起duì bu qǐHSK 1

  I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint

• 想起xiǎng qǐHSK 2

  to recall; to think of; to call to mind

• 起床qǐ chuángHSK 1

  to get out of bed; to get up

• 飞行fēi xíngHSK 3

  (of planes etc) to fly; flying; flight; aviation

• 看起来kàn qǐ laiHSK 3

  seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appear to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be

• 起诉qǐ sùHSK 6

  to sue; to bring a lawsuit against; to prosecute

• 提起tí qǐHSK 5

  to mention; to speak of; to lift; to pick up; to arouse; to raise (a topic, a heavy weight, one's fist, one's spirits etc)

• 起码qǐ mǎHSK 5

  at the minimum; at the very least

• 飞船fēi chuánHSK 6

  spaceship; spacecraft; dirigible; airship

• 发起fā qǐHSK 6

  to originate; to initiate; to launch (an attack, an initiative etc); to start; to propose sth (for the first time)

• 了不起liǎo bu qǐHSK 4

  amazing; terrific; extraordinary

• 飞行员fēi xíng yuánHSK 6

  pilot; aviator

• 响起xiǎng qǐHSK 7

  (of a sound) to come forth; (of a sound source) to ring out; to sound; to go off

• 起点qǐ diǎnHSK 6

  starting point

• 掀起xiān qǐHSK 7

  to lift; to raise (a lid etc); (of a storm) to surge; to stir up (waves etc); (fig.) to trigger; set off (a wave of popularity, a controversy etc)

• 飞往fēi wǎngHSK 7

  Go to

• 起步qǐ bùHSK 7

  to set out; to set in motion; the start (of some activity)

• 起初qǐ chūHSK 7

  originally; at first; at the outset