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

• 闻风而起(聞風而起) respond immediately on hearing news
• 起诉者(起訴者) plaintiff
• 对不起(對不起) to be sorry
• 烽烟四起，战火纷飞(烽煙四起，戰火紛飛) fire beacons in all four directions; the confusion of war
• 蔚起 to mushroom; to flourish
• 起更 early watch
• 源起 to originate
• 起小儿(起小兒) since childhood
• 起课(起課) to divine
• 承当不起(承當不起) unable to support something
• 负担不起(負擔不起) cannot afford; cannot bear the burden
• 起身 to stand up ; to leave ; to get out of bed
• 起用 to reinstate (in a position or job) ; to promote
• 承上起下 to follow the past and herald the future; part of a historical transition
• 起立 to stand up
• 起兴(起興) to give rise to desire
• 事不关己，高高挂起(事不關己，高高掛起) to feel unconcerned and let matters rest
• 禁得起 can be restrained; can be tolerated
• 湧起 to well up; to boil out; to bubble forth; to spurt
• 勾起 to evoke; to induce; to call to mind; to pick up with a hook
• 鼓起勇气(鼓起勇氣) to summon one's courage
• 支付不起 to be unable to pay; unaffordable
• 起钉器(起釘器) staple remover
• 起赃(起贓) to recover stolen property
• 起跑线(起跑線) the starting line (of a race); scratch line (in a relay race)
• 吊起 to hoist
• 起始 to originate
• 算起来(算起來) to calculate; to estimate; in total; all told; if you think about it
• 起动(起動) to start up (a motor); to launch (a computer application)
• 惊起(驚起) to start in surprise; to give a jolt of surprise
• 不起眼 unremarkable; nothing out of the ordinary
• 挑起 to provoke; to stir up; to incite
• 起落 to rise and fall; takeoff and landing; ups and downs
• 按下葫芦浮起瓢(按下葫蘆浮起瓢) solve one problem only to find another cropping up
• 起程 to set out on a journey; to leave
• 夹起尾巴(夾起尾巴) to tuck one's tail between one's legs; to back down; in a humiliating situation
• 群起而攻之 the masses rise to attack it; Everyone is against the idea.; universally abhorrent
• 起藳 to create an outline
• 一波未平，一波又起 before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises; a new problem arises before the old is solved; many twists and turns to a story
• 翘起(翹起) to stick up; to point
• 人类起源(人類起源) origin of mankind
• 仰卧起坐(仰臥起坐) sit-up; curl-up
• 烽火四起 the fire of war in all four directions; the confusion of war
• 鼓起 to summon one's (courage, faith etc); to puff up (one's cheeks etc); to bulge; to swell out
• 此起彼伏 arising here, falling there; in quick succession

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秦末农民起义 、 金田起义 、 阿赖耶缘起 、 生起本末 、 未生的善法，令它生起 、 乐声不起

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• 卷五十 志第三 天文三 Volume 50 Treatises 3: Astronomy 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 92
• 卷六十四 志第十七 五行二下 Volume 64 Treatises 17: Five Elements 2b History of Song 宋史 — count: 79
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 并起 (併起) 師旅並起 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧魚藻之什‧苕之華 Minor odes of the kingdom - Yu Zao Zhi Shen - Tiao Zhi Hua — 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
• 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