起 (qǐ)
to rise/to get up/to start
How 起 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 走 — run
- Traditional
- 起
- Simplified
- 起 (unchanged)
Common words using 起
- 一起 yīqǐ
- in the same place; together; with
- 發起 fāqǐ
- to originate; to initiate; to launch (an attack, an initiative etc)
- 起來 qǐlai
- to stand up; to get up; (after a verb) with an upward movement
- 起床 qǐchuáng
- to get out of bed; to get up
- 了不起 liǎobuqǐ
- amazing; terrific; extraordinary
- 升起 shēngqǐ
- to raise; to hoist; to rise
- 在一起 zàiyīqǐ
- together
- 對不起 duìbuqǐ
- unworthy; to let down; I'm sorry
- 引起 yǐnqǐ
- to give rise to; to lead to; to cause
- 想起 xiǎngqǐ
- to recall; to think of; to call to mind
- 拿起 náqǐ
- to pick up
- 提起 tíqǐ
- to mention; to speak of; to lift
起 in a sentence
我每天早上七點起床。
Wǒ měitiān zǎoshang qī diǎn qǐchuáng.
“I get up at seven o'clock every morning.”
How common is 起?
起 is the 75th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 36.7% of all running text.
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