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[1] [v] rise; stand up; get up [2] [v] begin; start; appear [3] [v] build; establish; set up [4] [v] remove; extract; pull out [5] [v] draft; draw up; work out [6] [v] draw; receive; get [7] [classifier] case; instance [8] [adv] up; up to a certain standard Default PoS:  Additional PoS:   Show all nouns that can use this classifier Stroke count: 10
Level: 2
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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This word has been viewed 28412 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 22nd Sep 2017 15:54 |
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對不起
deoi3 bat1 hei2 = sorry; excuse me 國
起碼
hei2 maa5 = at least; minimum
起身
hei2 san1 = to wake up; to get up
一起
jat1 hei2 = together 國
起眼
hei2 ngaan5 = eye-catching
睇唔起
tai2 m4 hei2 = look down upon 粵
㨴起鑊蓋
kin2 hei2 wok6 goi3 = take the lid off the pot 粵
醒唔起
seng2 m4 hei2 = cannot remember, not able to remember 粵
起立
hei2 laap6 = stand up
各位請起立!
gok3 wai6*2 cing2 hei2 laap6 = Everybody please stand up!See all 196 compounds (CantoDict reports 200 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations) |
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Showing 10 of 25 examples containing 起
有個叫平仔嘅學生起身 粵
A student called Ping stood up. [Lit. have [counter] call Ping-boy [possessive particle] student stand-up]
跌親就企返起身啦！ 粵
If you fall over, get back up again! [Lit. fall bad-thing, stand back up body. As the translation suggests, this is actually a conditional sentence, even though it might not seem like it. More explicitly we could say 如果你跌親嘅話，你就企返起身啦！] Legend 國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese. 粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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Decimal representation of this word: 起
Unicode code for this character: U+8d77 (off-site link)
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Decimal representation of this word: 起
Unicode code for this character: U+8d77 (off-site link)
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- : the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin.
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- our arbitrarily assigned difficulty level
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- a list of compound words that use this character, ordered by difficulty level.
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