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Matthews
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起 qǐ rise up
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#276
Chapter-17 HSK-A
10 strokes
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Compositions
Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
| 起 |
Ch'i is composed of 走 tsou to walk as radical, and 已 i finished as phonetic. It also means to rise, to begin, etc. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
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
Phrases ending with the given character
了liǎo
不bu
起qǐ
amazing/terrific/extraordinary
伤傷shāng
不不bù
起起qǐ
(slang) it's just the pits!/so unfair!/unbearable
公公gōng
孙孫sūn
起起qǐ
Gongsun Qi (-258 BC), famous general of Qin 秦國|秦国, the victor at 長平|长平 in 260 BC/same as Bai Qi 白起
在zài
一yī
起qǐ
together
对對duì
不不bu
起起qǐ
unworthy/to let down/I'm sorry/excuse me/pardon me/if you please/sorry? (please repeat)
对對duì
得得de
起起qǐ
not to let sb down/to treat sb fairly/be worthy of
惹rě
不bu
起qǐ
can't afford to offend/dare not provoke/difficult to deal with/insufferable
看kàn
不bu
起qǐ
to look down upon/to despise
看kàn
得de
起qǐ
to show respect for/to think highly of
瞧qiáo
不bù
起qǐ
to look down upon/to hold in contempt
禁jīn
不bu
起qǐ
to be unable to stand
经經jīng
不不bu
起起qǐ
can't stand it/to be unable to bear/to be unable to resist
经經jīng
得得de
起起qǐ
to be able to withstand/to be able to endure
联聯lián
想想xiǎng
起起qǐ
to associate/to think of
买買mǎi
不不bu
起起qǐ
cannot afford/can't afford buying
躲duǒ
不bu
起qǐ
can't avoid/can't hide from/unavoidable
输輸shū
不不bù
起起qǐ
to take defeat with bad grace/to be a sore loser/cannot afford to lose