起身 (hei2 san1 | qi3 shen1) : to wake up; to get up

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起身

hei2 san1

qi3 shen1

[1] (Cant.) To wake up, to waken, to arise in the morning. If you do this bleary eyed and feeling suicidally awful then you have something in common with this editor. | Mand.: 起床 [2] (Mand. and Cant.) to get up (from a sitting or lying-down position)

Level: 2 Google Frequency: 5,520,000

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

起身

This word has been viewed 14237 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 14th Jul 2004 02:25 and last edited on 25th Aug 2014 19:12

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Characters in this word:

起 hei2 - rise; stand up; begin; build; remove; draft
身 san1 - body; life; oneself

2 compounds containing this word:

企起身 - to stand up on one's own feet
趷起身 - lean forward

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

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！]

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

One Cantonese Homophone / Homophone Variant for this word:

起薪 hei2 san1 qi3 xin1 = starting salary

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