1. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. verb to call back from mourning
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '起' 5, p. 357)
  16. 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. 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. verb to conjecture
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '起' 2c, p. 357)
  19. verb stand up; utthāna
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: utthāna, Japanese: ki, Tibetan: ldang ba (BCSD '起', p. 1116; DJBT '起', p. 424; Mahāvyutpatti 'utthānam'; MW 'utthāna'; SH '起', p. 39)

Contained in

Also contained in

黄花岗起义惹起起码商飙徐起大会报告起草人振衰起弊起先对不起起迄拼起来起开人类起源女起解起讲起货起租按下葫芦浮起瓢秋收起义挂起螺丝起子源起联想起万丈高楼平地起大风起兮云飞扬共同起源起居注垂直和短距起落飞机满嘴起疱唤起起名看起来负担不起起落起扑杆起息音节起头

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

Collocations