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Mythic Mandarin

起飞 (qǐ fēi): meaning and stroke order

起飞 (qǐ fēi) means (of an aircraft or rocket) to take off; to lift off.

起飞

Simplified
起飞
Traditional
起飛
Pinyin
qǐ fēi

Stroke order of 起飞

起

  • qǐ to rise; to raise
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

飞

  • fēi to fly
  • 3 strokes
  • Traditional form: 飛

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 起飞

  1. qǐ fēi Traditional 起飛
    • (of an aircraft or rocket) to take off; to lift off
    • (fig.) (of an enterprise etc) to start to develop rapidly

Radicals of the characters

起
Radical 走 (Kangxi radical 156) · 10 strokes · built from 走 and 己
飞
Radical 飞 (Kangxi radical 183) in its simplified form · 3 strokes

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.

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).