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

Stroke order

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Words containing 起

Word Meaning
conflict close to home; a fire in one's backyard
to think highly of; to show respect for
Kia (Motors)
to be industrious, rising early and going to bed late
to start; at first; beginning
to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)
to well up; to bubble forth; to spurt
origin
to feel respect
continuously arising; to arise repeatedly
unable to take it any more
to make a draft; to draft (a document)
variant of qǐ yùn
peasant revolt
to surge like a gathering storm (idiom)
(of a group of people) to rush into action
one thing after another
to jump up suddenly; to rise up in one bound; to bound up
such a long story, I don't know where to start
long story, hard to know where to begin
erhua variant of bù qǐ yǎn
erhua variant of bù qǐ yǎn
to feel unconcerned and let matters rest (idiom)
to feel unconcerned and let matters rest (idiom)