起
qǐ

Definitions

  1. 1. to rise
  2. 2. to raise
  3. 3. to get up
  4. 4. to set out
  5. 5. to start
  6. 6. to appear
  7. 7. to launch
  8. 8. to initiate (action)
  9. 9. to draft
  10. 10. to establish
  11. 11. to get (from a depot or counter)
  12. 12. verb suffix, to start
  13. 13. starting from (a time, place, price etc)
  14. 14. classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
  15. 15. classifier for groups: batch, group

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Example Sentences

我每天六点起床去跑步。

Wǒ měitiān liù diǎn qǐchuáng qù pǎobù.

I get up at six every day to go jogging.

请站起来说。

Qǐng zhànqǐlái shuō.

Please stand up and speak.

想到小时候的事情，我们都笑了起来。

Xiǎngdào xiǎoshíhou de shìqing, wǒmen dōu xiào le qǐlái.

When we thought of things from our childhood, we all started laughing.