IDENTITY
起qǐto rise; to get up; to start
HSK 1Top 170
CORE MEANING
to rise; to get up; to start
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to get upHSK1
- 2.to startHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 走walk radical (zǒu)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- semi-enclosed compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿺走巳
- walking
- gives the sound qǐ (historical)
USAGE
Common words
起床qǐchuángto get up
一起yìqǐtogether
开始kāishǐto begin
Graded examples
我们一起去看电影吧。Wǒmen yìqǐ qù kàn diànyǐng ba.HSK1
Let’s go watch a movie together.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
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LEARNING
Memory aid
Setting out on foot (走) from oneself (己) — rising, starting.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #170
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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