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

• 搀起(攙起) to help someone to get up
• 罐头起子(罐頭起子) can opener
• 站起来(站起來) to stand up
• 一起 together ; a batch ; a case
• 起征点(起徵點) tax threshold
• 盗贼蜂起(盜賊蜂起) swarming with thieves and rife with corruption
• 起承转合(起承轉合) opening, continuing, turning, and combining
• 买不起(買不起) cannot afford; can't afford buying
• 白手起家 to build up from nothing; to start from scratch
• 崛地而起 arising suddenly above the level ground; sudden emergence of prominent new feature
• 奋起直追(奮起直追) to catch up vigorously; to set off in hot pursuit
• 吊起 to hoist
• 支付不起 to be unable to pay; unaffordable
• 拣起来(揀起來) pick up
• 烽烟四起(烽煙四起) fire beacons in all four directions; the confusion of war
• 泛起 to appear; to emerge; to surface
• 听起来(聽起來) to sound like
• 大会报告起草人(大會報告起草人) rapporteur
• 饱暖思淫欲，饥寒起盗心(飽暖思淫欲，飢寒起盜心) lechery springs from warmth and nourishment, kleptomania springs from hunger and cold
• 起哄 to boo and hoot ; to heckle; rowdy jeering; to create a disturbance
• 想起来(想起來) to remember; to recall
• 任凭风浪起，稳坐钓鱼台(任憑風浪起，穩坐釣魚臺) sitting at ease in a fishing boat despite wind and storm; to stay calm during tense situation
• 螺丝起子(螺絲起子) screwdriver
• 起死回生 to rise from the dead; an unexpected recovery
• 磨起泡 friction blister
• 商飙徐起(商飆徐起) the autumn breeze comes gently
• 围起(圍起) to surround; to encircle; to enclose; to fence in
• 起头(起頭) to start; at first; in the beginning ; to take the lead ; formerly
• 烽火四起 the fire of war in all four directions; the confusion of war
• 勾起 to evoke; to induce; to call to mind; to pick up with a hook
• 腾蛟起凤(騰蛟起鳳) soaring dragon, stirring phoenix
• 起跑 to start running; the start of a race
• 鼓起勇气(鼓起勇氣) to summon one's courage
• 事不关己，高高挂起(事不關己，高高掛起) to feel unconcerned and let matters rest
• 源起 to originate
• 掀起 to lift ; to arouse; to provoke
• 起床气(起床氣) grumpiness associated with poor sleep; irritability in the morning
• 提起 to mention; to speak of; to lift; to pick up; to arouse; to raise
• 雄起 (cry of encouragement); to arise; to stand up; to gain the ascendancy; Come on!
• 撑起来(撐起來) to support in standing up
• 揭竿而起 to start a rebellion
• 投袂而起 to shake one's sleeves and rise; to get excited and move to action
• 心头火起(心頭火起) to flare up in anger
• 搬起石头砸自己的脚(搬起石頭砸自己的腳) to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy)
• 起诉(起訴) to sue
• 饮食起居(飲食起居) drinking, eating, rising, resting; everyday life
• 闻风而起(聞風而起) respond immediately on hearing news
• 起货(起貨) to unload goods ; to collect goods ; to deliver goods
• 起立 to stand up

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金田起义 、 黄巢起义

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• 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
• 卷十一 志第一 天文上 Volume 11 Treatises 1: Astronomy Part One Book of Jin 晉書 — 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
• 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
• 能起 (能起) 杖而後能起 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《檀弓上》 Tan Gong I — count: 3
• 君起 (君起) 衛石圃逐其君起 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 2
• 士起 (士起) 晉士起將歸時事於宰旅 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 2
• 载起 (載起) 載起載行 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧鴻鴈之什‧沔水 Minor odes of the kingdom - Hong Yan Zhi Shen - Mian Shui — count: 2
• 方起 (方起) 疾瘧方起 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 定公 Lord Ding — 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