Characters
- 引 (引): to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth; to extend; to lengthen; to involve or implicate in; to attract; to lead; to guide; to leave; to provide evidence or justification for; old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
- 起 (起): 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
Resources
- Wiktionary: 引起
- MDBG: 引起
- Examples with 引起 on Tatoeba
Examples
披头士的发型引起了轰动。
昨晚的火災被斷定為由縱火引起的。
如何引起女人的渴望？
雨再大一点就会引起水灾了。
意外是因為他不小心駕駛而引起的。