See 白手興家 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "白手兴家",
"tags": [
"Simplified-Chinese"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zh",
"2": "idiom"
},
"expansion": "白手興家",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Chinese",
"lang_code": "zh",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Cantonese chengyu",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Chinese chengyu",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Mandarin chengyu",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to start an enterprise from scratch; to build up from nothing; to start from scratch"
],
"id": "en-白手興家-zh-phrase-VlwuxDbT",
"links": [
[
"start",
"start"
],
[
"enterprise",
"enterprise"
],
[
"scratch",
"scratch"
],
[
"build up",
"build up"
],
[
"nothing",
"nothing"
],
[
"start from scratch",
"start from scratch"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"roman": "báishǒuqǐjiā",
"word": "白手起家"
},
{
"roman": "báishǒuchéngjiā",
"word": "白手成家"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "báishǒuxīngjiā"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄅㄞˊ ㄕㄡˇ ㄒㄧㄥ ㄐㄧㄚ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "baak⁶ sau² hing¹ gaa¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "báishǒuxīngjiā"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄅㄞˊ ㄕㄡˇ ㄒㄧㄥ ㄐㄧㄚ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "báishǒusingjia"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh_pron": "pai²-shou³-hsing¹-chia¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "bái-shǒu-syīng-jyā"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
],
"zh_pron": "bairshooushingjia"
},
{
"roman": "bajšousinczja",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Palladius"
],
"zh_pron": "байшоусинцзя"
},
{
"ipa": "/paɪ̯³⁵ ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "baak⁶ sau² hing¹ gaa¹"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "baahk sáu hīng gā"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "baak⁹ sau² hing¹ gaa¹"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh_pron": "bag⁶ seo² hing¹ ga¹"
},
{
"ipa": "/paːk̚² sɐu̯³⁵ hɪŋ⁵⁵ kaː⁵⁵/",
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
}
],
"word": "白手興家"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "白手兴家",
"tags": [
"Simplified-Chinese"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zh",
"2": "idiom"
},
"expansion": "白手興家",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Chinese",
"lang_code": "zh",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Cantonese chengyu",
"Cantonese idioms",
"Cantonese lemmas",
"Chinese chengyu",
"Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
"Chinese idioms",
"Chinese lemmas",
"Chinese terms spelled with 家",
"Chinese terms spelled with 手",
"Chinese terms spelled with 白",
"Chinese terms spelled with 興",
"Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Mandarin chengyu",
"Mandarin idioms",
"Mandarin lemmas",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"to start an enterprise from scratch; to build up from nothing; to start from scratch"
],
"links": [
[
"start",
"start"
],
[
"enterprise",
"enterprise"
],
[
"scratch",
"scratch"
],
[
"build up",
"build up"
],
[
"nothing",
"nothing"
],
[
"start from scratch",
"start from scratch"
]
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "báishǒuxīngjiā"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄅㄞˊ ㄕㄡˇ ㄒㄧㄥ ㄐㄧㄚ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "baak⁶ sau² hing¹ gaa¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "báishǒuxīngjiā"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄅㄞˊ ㄕㄡˇ ㄒㄧㄥ ㄐㄧㄚ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "báishǒusingjia"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh_pron": "pai²-shou³-hsing¹-chia¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "bái-shǒu-syīng-jyā"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
],
"zh_pron": "bairshooushingjia"
},
{
"roman": "bajšousinczja",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Palladius"
],
"zh_pron": "байшоусинцзя"
},
{
"ipa": "/paɪ̯³⁵ ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "baak⁶ sau² hing¹ gaa¹"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "baahk sáu hīng gā"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "baak⁹ sau² hing¹ gaa¹"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh_pron": "bag⁶ seo² hing¹ ga¹"
},
{
"ipa": "/paːk̚² sɐu̯³⁵ hɪŋ⁵⁵ kaː⁵⁵/",
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"roman": "báishǒuqǐjiā",
"word": "白手起家"
},
{
"roman": "báishǒuchéngjiā",
"word": "白手成家"
}
],
"word": "白手興家"
}
Download raw JSONL data for 白手興家 meaning in Chinese (2.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-23 using wiktextract (ffdbfc3 and b9346a0). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.