起 qǐ

1. qǐ verb to arise; to get up
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: An intransitive verb, in the sense of 站立 (Guoyu '起' v 1; Kroll 2015 '起' 1, p. 357; Mathews 1931 '起', p. 71; Rouzer 2007, p. 39; Unihan '起'; XHZD '起' 1, p. 586)
2. qǐ measure word case; instance; batch; group
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: 起 can be used for occurrences or unpredictable events, such as a case, instance, etc, or for groups of things, such asbatch, group, etc (Guoyu '起' n 2; XHZD '起' 9, p. 587)
3. qǐ verb to rise; to raise
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '起' 2, p. 357; Unihan '起'; XHZD '起' 2, p. 586)
4. qǐ verb to grow out of; to bring forth; to emerge
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 发动 (Guoyu '起' v 4; Kroll 2015 '起' 1b, p. 357; XHZD '起' 3, p. 586)
5. qǐ verb to appoint (to an official post); to take up a post
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 出仕 (Guoyu '起' v 7; Kroll 2015 '起' 2e, p. 357)
6. qǐ verb to start
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 开始 (Guoyu '起' v 3; Kroll 2015 '起' 1e, p. 357; Mathews 1931 '起', p. 72; Unihan '起'; XHZD '起' 4, p. 586)
7. qǐ verb to establish; to build
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: 起 is synonymous with 建造 or 建立 in this sense (Guoyu '起' v 10; Kroll 2015 '起' 2d, p. 357; XHZD '起' 7, p. 587)
8. qǐ verb to draft; to draw up (a plan)
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 拟订 (Guoyu '起' v 8; XHZD '起' 6, p. 587)
9. qǐ noun opening sentence; opening verse
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Of a poem (Guoyu '起' n 1; XHZD '起' 4, p. 587)
10. qǐ verb to get out of bed
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 起床 (Guoyu '起' v 2)
11. qǐ verb to recover; to heal
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 复甦 (Guoyu '起' v 5; Kroll 2015 '起' 2a, p. 357)
12. qǐ verb to take out; to extract
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 取出 (Guoyu '起' v 6)
13. qǐ auxiliary verb marks the beginning of an action
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: Placed after a verb as a complement (Guoyu '起' auxiliary verb; Kroll 2015 '起' 4, p. 357; XHZD '起' 11, p. 587)
14. qǐ auxiliary verb marks the sufficiency of an action
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: Placed after a verb as a complement (Guoyu '起' auxiliary verb; XHZD '起' 10, p. 587)
15. qǐ verb to call back from mourning
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '起' 5, p. 357)
16. qǐ verb to take place; to occur
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 发生 (XHZD '起' 5, p. 587)
17. qǐ preposition from
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 从 (Kroll 2015 '起' 3, p. 357; XHZD '起' 8, p. 587)
18. qǐ verb to conjecture
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '起' 2c, p. 357)

Contained in

• 磨起泡 friction blister
• 勤俭起家(勤儉起家) to rise up by thrift and hard work
• 起锚(起錨) to raise anchor
• 突起部 bit sticking out; projection
• 承不起来(承不起來) unable to sustain something
• 起居 everyday life ; to greet a superior ; rising and resting
• 提前起爆 fizzle (atomic bomb misfire); preinitiation
• 后院起火(後院起火) a fire in one's backyard; conflict close to home
• 湧起 to well up; to boil out; to bubble forth; to spurt
• 起身 to stand up ; to leave ; to get out of bed
• 心脏起搏器(心臟起搏器) pacemaker
• 起动钮(起動鈕) starter button; on switch
• 瞧不起 to look down upon
• 起诉者(起訴者) plaintiff
• 听起来(聽起來) to sound like
• 起造员(起造員) draftsman; draughtsman
• 风起云涌(風起雲湧) to surge like a gathering storm; to grow by leaps and bounds
• 起誓 to take a vow; to swear an oath
• 一病不起 to fall gravely ill, never to recover
• 东太平洋隆起(東太平洋隆起) East Pacific Rise (a mid-oceanic ridge stretching from California to Antarctica)
• 浮起 to float; to emerge
• 满嘴起疱(滿嘴起皰) to have lips covered in blisters
• 夹起尾巴(夾起尾巴) to tuck one's tail between one's legs; to back down; in a humiliating situation
• 排起长队(排起長隊) to form a long line (i.e. of people waiting)
• 了不起 amazing; terrific; extraordinary
• 早起 to get up early
• 起首 at first
• 看不起 to look down upon; to despise
• 起降 (of aircraft) to take off and land
• 起先 at first; in the beginning
• 平地起风波(平地起風波) trouble appearing from nowhere; unforeseen situation
• 起居作息 rising and lying down, working and resting; everyday life; daily routine; to go about one's daily life
• 说起(說起) to mention; to bring up (a subject); with regard to; as for
• 奋起直追(奮起直追) to catch up vigorously; to set off in hot pursuit
• 见财起意(見財起意) seeing wealth stirs desire
• 起落架 undercarriage
• 思潮起伏 thoughts surging in one's mind; different thoughts coming to mind
• 起航 (of a ship) to set sail; (of an aeroplane) to take off
• 起小儿(起小兒) since childhood
• 想起来(想起來) to remember; to recall
• 起钉器(起釘器) staple remover
• 勃起功能障碍(勃起功能障礙) erectile dysfunction (ED)
• 起程 to set out on a journey; to leave
• 对不起(對不起) to be sorry
• 起色 a turn for the better; improvement
• 拿得起放得下 can pick it up or put it down; to take what comes; to meet gains or losses with equanimity
• 起飞弹射(起飛彈射) takeoff catapult (on aircraft carrier)
• 起点(起點) starting point

Also contained in

吴起县 、 公孙起 、 白起

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Truncated for common words

• 卷五十一 志第四 天文四 Volume 51 Treatises 4: Astronomy 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 135
• 《高祖功臣侯者年表》 Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises in the Time of Gaozu Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 100
• 卷五十 志第三 天文三 Volume 50 Treatises 3: Astronomy 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 92
• 卷六十 志第十三 天文十三 Volume 60 Treatises 13: Astronomy 13 History of Song 宋史 — count: 79
• 卷六十四 志第十七 五行二下 Volume 64 Treatises 17: Five Elements 2b History of Song 宋史 — count: 79
• 卷20　志第15 天文中 Volume 20 Treatises 15: Astronomy 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 66
• 卷21　志第16 天文下 Volume 21 Treatises 16: Astronomy 3 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 58
• 卷二百七十九 列傳第一百六十七 呂大器 文安之 樊一蘅 吳炳 王錫袞 堵胤錫 嚴起恒 朱天麟 楊畏知 吳貞毓 Volume 279 Biographies 167: Lu Daqi, Wen Anzhi, Fan Yiheng, Wu Bing, Wang Xigun, Du Yinxi, Yan Qiheng, Zhu Tianlin, Yang Weizhi, Wu Zhenyu History of Ming 明史 — count: 55
• 卷十 列傳第四 蕭穎達 夏侯詳 蔡道恭 楊公則 鄧元起 Volume 10: Xiao Yingda; Xiahou Jiang; Cai Daogong; Yang Gongze; Deng Yuanqi Book of Liang 梁書 — count: 54
• 卷105之四 天象志一之四 Volume 105d Treatise 1: Celestial Phenomena 4 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 54

Collocations

• 韩起 (韓起) 韓起少於欒黶 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 17
• 观起 (觀起) 楚觀起有寵於令尹子南 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 5
• 起师 (起師) 遂起師 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 4
• 能起 (能起) 杖而後能起 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《檀弓上》 Tan Gong I — count: 3
• 起军旅 (起軍旅) 以起軍旅 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare — count: 3
• 数起 (數起) 軍旅數起 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧雄雉 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Xiong Zhi — count: 2
• 悉起 (悉起) 晉師悉起 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 2
• 起敬起 (起敬起) 起敬起孝 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《內則》 The Pattern of the Family — count: 2
• 宾起 (賓起) 賓起 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 2
• 时起 (時起) 百螣時起 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 2