起跑线
qǐpǎoxiàn
starting line
Characters in this word
线 xiàn
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 纟 — silk
- Made of
- 纟 silk 戋 small, narrow
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 教育资源差距让孩子们从起跑线开始就面对不公平竞争。 Jiàoyù zīyuán chājù ràng háizimen cóng qǐpǎoxiàn kāishǐ jiù miànduì bù gōngpíng jìngzhēng. Gaps in educational resources make children face unfair competition from the very starting line.
- 发令枪一响，运动员们冲出了起跑线。 Fālìngqiāng yī xiǎng, yùndòngyuánmen chōng chūle qǐpǎoxiàn. When the starting gun fired, the runners dashed off from the starting line.
- 孩子还小，父母别总提什么起跑线。 Háizi hái xiǎo, fùmǔ bié zǒng tí shénme qǐpǎoxiàn. The child is still young; parents shouldn't keep going on about starting lines.
Related words
- 对不起 duìbuqǐ sorry, excuse me
- 起 qǐ to rise, to get up
- 起床 qǐchuáng to get up (out of bed)
- 起来 qǐlai to get up, to stand up; to start (doing)
- 一起 yìqǐ together
- 起飞 qǐfēi to take off
- 想起 xiǎngqǐ to remember; to recall
- 看起来 kànqǐlai to look; to seem
- 看不起 kànbuqǐ to look down on
- 了不起 liǎobuqǐ amazing
- 引起 yǐnqǐ to cause
- 起到 qǐdào to play a role