Characters
- 白 (白): surname Bai
- 手 (手): hand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work; person skilled in certain types of work; personal(ly); convenient; classifier for skill; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
- 起 (起): 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
- 家 (傢): used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1 ju4]
Resources
- Wiktionary: 白手起家
- MDBG: 白手起家
- Examples with 白手起家 on Tatoeba
Examples
林肯總統就是我們所謂白手起家的男人。