起 in English qi3 Meaning

Meanings

  • 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 and so on)
  • classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
  • classifier for groups: batch, group

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Traditional Characters

Pinyin

qi3

Literal

Literal explanation, with pronunciation and meaning of each character.

qi3to rise