The plane took off.
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起飞
Traditional: 起飛
qǐ fēi
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qǐ fēi · hei2 fei1 (Jyutping)
- (of an aircraft or rocket) to take off; to lift off
- (fig.) (of an enterprise etc) to start to develop rapidly
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Character breakdown
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
The plane is about to take off.
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