起

qǐ

to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group

Radical: 走 HSK 1 v, q, f pictophonetic

Components & Etymology

起 decomposes into the following components:

走 己

Semantic component: 走; phonetic component: 己.

Words containing 起

Common multi-character words and phrases that include 起.

一起
yī qǐ
in the same place
举起
jǔ qǐ
to heave
兴起
xīng qǐ
to rise
再起
zài qǐ
to arise again
凸起
tū qǐ
convex
勃起
bó qǐ
erection
勾起
gōu qǐ
to evoke
升起
shēng qǐ
to raise
卷起
juǎn qǐ
to roll up
发起
fā qǐ
to originate
吊起
diào qǐ
to hoist
吴起
wú qǐ
Wu Qi (440-381 BC), military leader and politician of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), author of ”Wu-zi” 吳子|吴子[Wu2 zi3], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 Shu1]

Related characters (radical 走)

Characters that share the radical 走.

走 赳 赴 赵 赶 赸 趁 趄 超 越 趋 趑 趔 趕 趙 趟 趣 趦 趨 趯 趱

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