起 (hei2 | qi3) : rise; stand up; begin; build; remove; draft

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起

hei2

qi3

[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

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Stroke count: 10

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This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

起

This word has been viewed 25078 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 dui4 bu4 qi3 (Taiwan); dui4 bu5 qi3 (PRC) = sorry; excuse me 國

起碼 hei2 maa5 qi3 ma3 = at least; minimum

起身 hei2 san1 qi3 shen1 = to wake up; to get up

一起 jat1 hei2 yi1 qi3 = together 國

起眼 hei2 ngaan5 qi3 yan3 = eye-catching

睇唔起 tai2 m4 hei2 di4 wu2 qi3 = 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 xing3 wu2 qi3 = cannot remember, not able to remember 粵

起立 hei2 laap6 qi3 li4 = stand up

各位請起立! gok3 wai6*2 cing2 hei2 laap6 ge4 wei4 qing3 qi3 li4 = Everybody please stand up!
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Showing all 25 examples containing 起

對不起，由於下雨，所以我遲到了。國
I'm sorry, I was late because of the rain.

我聽日七點鐘要起身。粵
I need to wake up at 7 o'clock tomorrow.

㨆起啲行李粵
Stack the luggage in a pile.

個男仔挖起棵樹樁粵
The boy digs up a tree stump.
[Lit. [counter] man-child dig up [counter] tree-stump]

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！]

佢畀唔起人工粵
He can't pay the wages

唔好惹起我把火呀！粵
Don't aggravate me !

對得起朋友
be a true friend

一隻手就掅起桶水粵
He lifts up a bucket of water with just one hand.

我返到屋企起勢噉飲水。粵
I drank water unceasingly on returning home.

佢起勢噉做晒啲嘢粵
He finished the work with vigour.

佢連車都買唔起, 何況係買屋粵
He can't afford a car, let alone a house.

呢件事關重大，佢擔唔擔戴得起啊?
Is he able to bear the responsibility of such an important matter?

為你的安全起見國
For the sake of your safety

佢老婆起佢尾注擸晒啲錢跟佬走咗粵
His wife took all his money and eloped with another man already.

提起件事我就覺得唏噓粵
Bringing up that issue makes me feel sad.

三萬蚊買起佢，易如反掌粵
Thirty thousand dollars to get someone to kill him, its easy.

早睡早起身體好。
It is good for our body's health to sleep and get up early.

有時廣東話講起上嚟都幾繑口粵
Sometimes Cantonese can be very hard to pronounce.

件事講起嚟真係一疋布咁長。粵
It's a long incident/story to talk about.
[the story is so long to talk about as if it's as long as a full roll of fabric.]

講起嚟﹐我都識何先生。粵
Now you come to mention it, I know Mr Ho as well.
[起嚟 is a verb complement which means 'once you start ...'.]

佢一句話﹐引到成屋人都笑起嚟。粵
His remark set everyone in the house roaring with laughter.
[起嚟 is a verb complement which means 'starting to ...'.]

佢笑起上嚟會殺死人。粵
She has a killer smile.

呢件事睇起嚟好困難﹐但係做落去好容易。粵
This task seems quite difficult, but doing it is really easy.
[Aspect markers 起嚟 and 落去 function rather like antonyms, originally meaning "starting to" and "carrying on" respectively. ]

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