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: 起
- MDBG: 起
- Examples with 起 on Tatoeba
Examples
道路结冰导致了很多起事故。
酸会和金属物质起化学反应。
Alice从上周日起就感冒了。
我在五時左右起了床。
他們的煩惱是由一件瑣碎的事而起的。