Traditional: 起飛
起飞 (qǐ fēi) means “(of an aircraft) to take off”. It is an HSK 3 Chinese word (traditional 起飛) in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
Practice each character:
飞机马上就要起飞了。
Fēijī mǎshàng jiù yào qǐfēi le.
The plane is about to take off.
Updated: 2026-05-27