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
举起
jǔ qǐ
兴起
xīng qǐ
再起
zài qǐ
凸起
tū qǐ
勃起
bó qǐ
勾起
gōu qǐ
升起
shēng qǐ
卷起
juǎn qǐ
发起
fā qǐ
吊起
diào qǐ
吴起
wú qǐ

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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