单飞

單飛
dānfēi
verb #36,196

Meanings

  1. 1 to fly solo
  2. 2 (figurative) to go solo, to leave a group and strike out alone

Examples

HSK 5
Tā cóng yuèduì dānfēi hòu fāxíng le dìyī zhāng gèrén zhuānjí.
After going solo from the band, she released her first individual album.
HSK 7-9
Tā yànjuàn le tuánduì gōngzuò, juédìng dānfēi chuàngyè.
Tired of teamwork, he decided to strike out on his own and start a business.

Tips

memory
Mirrors the English 'fly solo' almost exactly: ('single, solo') + ('to fly'). The image started literal, a pilot's first solo flight, and migrated naturally to bands, idol groups and entrepreneurship.
culture
Heavily used in Chinese pop-music and idol-group reporting: when a member of a group like TFBOYS or SNH48 starts a solo project, headlines invariably use 单飞.

Stroke Order

dān
fēi