起飞 起飛
起飞起飛 in English
- (of an aircraft or rocket) to take off / to lift off / (fig.) (of an enterprise etc) to start to develop rapidly
Measure word
- 点 diǎn point; dot; drop; speck; o'clock; point (in space or time); to draw a dot; to check on a list; to choose; to order... attested in use
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
起
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Warring States script 戰國.燕 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
飞
These are the forms of 飛, the traditional character: 飞 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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由于暴风雨的关系，飞机没能起飞。
The plane was unable to take off due to the storm.
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起飞比降落容易。
Taking off is easier than landing.
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那架飞机五点起飞。
That plane will take off at five.
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飞机十分钟之前就起飞了。
The airplane took off ten minutes ago.
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飞机将在一小时后起飞。
The plane will take off in one hour.