起家 qǐjiā

  1. qǐjiā verb to start out by; to grow an enterprise beginning with; to begin one's career by
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '起家'; Guoyu '起家' 2)
  2. qǐjiā verb to raise the status of one's family through obtaining an official post
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '起家' 1; Mathews 1931 '起家', p. 71)

Also contained in

白手起家勤俭起家平地起家

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 9 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 3
  • Scroll 1 Wan Song Laoren Ping Chang Tian Tong Jue Heshang Song Gu Congrong An Lu 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 — count: 2 , has English translation
  • Scroll 1 A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Luoyang 洛陽伽藍記 — count: 2 , has English translation
  • Scroll 8 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 2
  • Scroll 26 Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄 — count: 1
  • Scroll 11 Biographies of Eminent Monks 高僧傳 — count: 1 , has English translation
  • Scroll 7 Record of the Teaching and Practices of Siming (Siming Zunzhe Jiao Xing Lu) 四明尊者教行錄 — count: 1
  • Scroll 27 Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄 — count: 1
  • Scroll 1 Record of the Teaching and Practices of Siming (Siming Zunzhe Jiao Xing Lu) 四明尊者教行錄 — count: 1
  • Scroll 39 Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經 — count: 1 , has English translation , has parallel version

Collocations

  • 起家门 (起家門) 而今慚愧起家門 — Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄, Scroll 2 — count: 4
  • 惭愧起家 (慚愧起家) 而今慚愧起家門 — Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄, Scroll 2 — count: 3