起
起 (qǐ) – to rise
qǐ
to rise
HSK 3.0 Level 10 example sentences
Definitions
- 1to rise
- 2to raise
- 3to get up
- 4to set out
- 5to start
- 6to appear
- 7to launch
- 8to initiate (action)
- 9to draft
- 10to establish
- 11to get (from a depot or counter)
- 12verb suffix, to start
- 13starting from (a time, place, price etc)
- 14classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
- 15classifier for groups: batch, group
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Related words
起床
qǐ chuáng
to get out of bed
一起
yī qǐ
in the same place
起飞
qǐ fēi
(of an aircraft) to take off
起来
qǐ lai
to stand up
引起
yǐn qǐ
to give rise to
想起
xiǎng qǐ
to recall
起到
qǐ dào
(in an expression of the form 起到…用) to have (a (motivating etc) effect)
起码
qǐ mǎ
at the minimum
提起
tí qǐ
to mention
发起
fā qǐ
to originate
起点
qǐ diǎn
starting point
起诉
qǐ sù
to sue
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