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Stroke order
起飞 is written in 13 strokes across 2 characters.
- 起 — 10 strokes
- 飞 — 3 strokes
Senses
- (of an aircraft or rocket) to take off; to lift off
- (fig.) (of an enterprise etc) to start to develop rapidly
Example sentences
- 飞机马上就要起飞了。Fēijī mǎshàng jiù yào qǐfēi le.The plane is about to take off.
- 我们的飞机八点起飞。Wǒmen de fēijī bā diǎn qǐfēi.Our plane takes off at eight.
Related words
起飞 is pronounced qǐfēi and means “despegar; quitarse”. It belongs to the HSK 3 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 起飞 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.