go up

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
走 meaning component

  Meaning component

zǒu

  

walk

己 sound component

  Sound component

  

self

Evolution

起 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
起 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
起 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

rise, stand up; go up; begin; to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group

Most common words with 起
Freq.
Word
Meaning

起来

also pr. [qǐ​lai]

一起

together

to rise

对不起

unworthy

引起

to lead to

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.qʰ(r)əʔ

khiX

rise (v.)


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.9199% of movies

62nd most common character in movies

75th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+8D77

Shuowen

“起,能立也。从走,巳聲。,古文起,从辵。”


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