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
Pinyin
qi3Literal
Literal explanation, with pronunciation and meaning of each character.
起