起嚟 (hei2 lai4 | ) : upward movement; stand up

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起嚟

hei2 lai4

upward movement; stand up

Level: 3
This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵

起嚟

This word was added by bybell on 27th Jul 2007 20:00 and last edited on 29th Dec 2008 06:03

Characters in this word:

起 hei2 - to start; rise; get up
嚟 lei4 lai4 - to come; to order food or drink

1 compounds containing this word:

吊起嚟賣 - to speculate by hoarding sth (which drives the price up)

Showing 1 example containing 起嚟

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.]

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Decimal representation of this word: 起嚟

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