Characters in this word

6
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to rise, to raise, to get up, to set out, to start, to appear, to launch, to initiate (action), to draft, to establish, to get (from a depot or counter), verb suffix, to start, starting from (a time, place, price etc), classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance, classifier for groups: batch, group

Pinyin
Strokes
10
Frequency
687 of 2500
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

of; ~'s (possessive particle), (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun), (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis), (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的[pi2 ge2 de5] "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的[pao3 tang2 r5 de5] "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的[xin1 de5] "new one"), also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs

Pinyin
de
Strokes
8
Frequency
1 of 2500
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity, used in transliteration, (bound form) Afghanistan (abbr. for 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4]), (bound form) Albania (abbr. for 阿爾巴尼亞|阿尔巴尼亚[A1 er3 ba1 ni2 ya4]), (bound form) Algeria (abbr. for 阿爾及利亞|阿尔及利亚[A1 er3 ji2 li4 ya4]), (bound form) Argentina (abbr. for 阿根廷[A1 gen1 ting2]), also pr. [a4]

Pinyin
ā
Strokes
7
Frequency
1011 of 2500