to get up; to rise; to start

Character data

HSK 1
Frequency 75th character
Radical ⾛ (156.3)
Strokes 10
Index # 1789

Definitions

起 qǐ
  1. 1. to get up
  2. 2. to rise
  3. 3. to start
  4. 4. starting from (a time, place, price etc)
  5. 5. to set out
  6. 6. to initiate (action)
  7. 7. to raise
  8. 8. to launch
  9. 9. to appear
  10. 10. to establish
  11. 11. to draft
  12. 12. to get (from a depot or counter)
  13. 13. verb suffix, to start
  14. 14. classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
  15. 15. classifier for groups: batch, group

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Words containing 起

Word Meaning
cheese (loanword) (Tw)
cheesecake
erhua variant of qǐ míng
erhua variant of qǐ míng
cheese (loanword) (Tw)
cheesecake
since childhood
erhua variant of qǐ xiǎo
erhua variant of qǐ xiǎo
lit. rising and lying down, working and resting (idiom)
grumpiness associated with poor sleep
grumpiness associated with poor sleep
reveille
tax threshold
tax threshold
to conceive a scheme; to devise a plan
artificial pacemaker
chip shot (golf)
chip shot (golf)
chipper (golf)
chipper (golf)
to be industrious, rising early and going to bed late
to set an example
to set an example
fluff; lint; to feel nervous