起 qǐ
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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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
qǐ
verb
to call back from mourning
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '起' 5, p. 357) -
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) -
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) -
qǐ
verb
to conjecture
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '起' 2c, p. 357)
Contained in
- 异军突起(異軍突起) to emerge as a new force
- 无风不起浪(無風不起浪) without wind there cannot be waves; there must be a reason; no smoke without fire
- 泛起 to appear; to emerge; to surface
- 看起来(看起來) seemingly; apparently
- 起诉(起訴) to sue
- 起床气(起床氣) grumpiness associated with poor sleep; irritability in the morning
- 一部二十四史，不知从何说起(一部二十四史，不知從何說起) It's a long and intricate story, I hardly know where to start.
- 起落场(起落場) airstrip
- 没起子(沒起子) (of a person) useless; pathetic; spineless
- 凸起 to protrude; to bulge
- 兴起(興起) to rise; to arise ; to originate ; to develop
- 白手起家 to build up from nothing; to start from scratch
- 在一起 together
- 全世界人民团结起来(全世界人民團結起來) people of the world unite
- 起点(起點) starting point
- 肩起 to bear; to shoulder (responsibilities etc)
- 起皱纹(起皺紋) to shrivel
- 此起彼伏 arising here, falling there; in quick succession
- 铆起来(鉚起來) to get enthusiastic; to put in all one's energy
- 起征点(起徵點) tax threshold
- 按下葫芦浮起瓢(按下葫蘆浮起瓢) solve one problem only to find another cropping up
- 起立 to stand up
- 起承转合(起承轉合) opening, continuing, turning, and combining
- 起兵 to send troops
- 起重机(起重機) crane
- 起家 to start out by; to grow an enterprise beginning with; to begin one's career by ; to raise the status of one's family through obtaining an official post
- 起毛 fluff; lint; to feel nervous
- 起动(起動) to start up (a motor); to launch (a computer application)
- 惹起 to provoke
- 起运(起運) to ship (goods)
- 瞧不起 to look down upon
- 源起 to originate
- 拍案而起 to slap the table and stand up; at the end of one's tether; unable to take it any more
- 全世界无产者联合起来(全世界無產者聯合起來) Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch! / Workers of the world, unite!
- 提前起爆 fizzle (atomic bomb misfire); preinitiation
- 一病不起 to fall gravely ill, never to recover
- 拣起来(揀起來) pick up
- 起舞 to dance [for joy]
- 此起彼落 arising here, falling there; in quick succession
- 起落 to rise and fall; takeoff and landing; ups and downs
- 起首 at first
- 拿起 to pick up
- 一跃而起(一躍而起) to jump up suddenly; to bound up; to rise up in one bound
- 伤不起(傷不起) it's just the pits!; so unfair!; unbearable
Also contained in
起居郎 、 阿赖耶缘起 、 乐声不起 、 川楚白莲教起义 、 吴起 、 钱起 、 黄巢起义
Word is mentioned most frequently in
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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 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
- 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
- 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
- 起孝 (起孝) 起敬起孝 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《內則》 The Pattern of the Family — count: 2
- 起不堪 (起不堪) 起不堪也 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — 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
- 起羞 (起羞) 惟口起羞 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 說命中（僞） Shang Shu - Charge to Yue II (forged) — count: 2