Entry
闻wén鸡jī起qǐ舞wǔ

  1. to start practicing at the first crow of the cock (idiom); to be diligent in one's studies

    trad. 聞雞起舞

Also written 聞雞起舞【wén jī qǐ wǔ】

Characters in this word

4
起
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
qǐ
Strokes
10
Frequency
687 of 2500
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