(coll.) to try to improve one's social standing by marrying or affiliating with people of higher status
Characters in this word
3攀
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to climb (by pulling oneself up), to implicate, to claim connections of higher status
- Pinyin
- pān
- Strokes
- 19
- Frequency
- 22481 of 2500
高
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
surname Gao
- Pinyin
- Gāo
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 681 of 2500
枝
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
branch, classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc
- Pinyin
- zhī
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 38715 of 2500