白起 (Bái Qǐ): meaning and stroke order
白起 (Bái Qǐ) means Bai Qi (-258 BC), famous general of Qin 秦國|秦国, the victor at 長平|长平 in 260 BC.
白起
- Simplified
- 白起
- Traditional
- 白起 (same form)
- Pinyin
- Bái Qǐ
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Stroke order of 白起
白
- Bái surname Bai
- bái white; snowy
- 5 strokes
Stroke by stroke
起
- qǐ to rise; to raise
- 10 strokes
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Meaning of 白起
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Bái Qǐ
- Bai Qi (-258 BC), famous general of Qin 秦國|秦国, the victor at 長平|长平 in 260 BC
- same as 公孫起|公孙起
Radicals of the characters
- 白
- Radical 白 (Kangxi radical 106) · 5 strokes
- 起
- Radical 走 (Kangxi radical 156) · 10 strokes · built from 走 and 己
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
白起 in our stories
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秦将白起故意假装失败，一路后退，赵括以为自己赢了，带着大军追了上去。
Qín jiàng Bái Qǐ gùyì jiǎzhuāng shībài yílù hòutuì Zhào Kuò yǐwéi zìjǐ yíng le dài zhe dàjūn zhuī le shàngqu
The Qin general Bai Qi deliberately feigned defeat and fell back all the way; Zhao Kuo thought he had won and pursued with his whole army.
From the story Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).