Taiwan Mandarin

DictionaryCommon words起家

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起家

qǐ jiā·ㄑㄧˇ ㄐㄧㄚ

“to rise from humble origins to official position; to build a career or family fortune from scratch”

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To rise, get up, stand up; to start, begin, initiate; to raise, lift; to appear, emerge; to recover, get better; to take out, fetch.

jiā·ㄐㄧㄚ

Home; house; family; refers to a school of thought; classifier for families or businesses; noun suffix for a specialist; polite term for relatives.