起来 Chinese English dictionary 起来 translate 起来 pinyin

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起来

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Simplified Pīnyīn		English Definition	Traditional HSK
起来 qǐlai	起来 \| 起来* \| *起来	to stand up; to get up / also pr. [qi3lai2]	起來 HSK 1


起来 qilai	起来 \| 起来* \| *起来	(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state / indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站) / indicating completion / (after a perception verb, e.g. 看) expressing preliminary judgment / also pr. [qi3lai5]	起來

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Character		Tot Str Rad / Str	Mandarin Pīnyīn	Unihan Definition standalone and in compounds	Jyutping Cantonese	Variant Four corner Cangjie
起	起 \| 起* \| *起	10画走 + 3	qǐ	rise, stand up; go up; begin	hei2	4780.1 GORU


来	来 \| 来* \| *来	7画一 + 6 木 + 3	lái, lài	come, coming; return, returning	loi4	來 5090.0 DT

Word decomposition:

Simplified		English Definition
起来 qǐlai	起来 \| 起来* \| *起来	to stand up; to get up / also pr. [qi3lai2]


起来 qilai	起来 \| 起来* \| *起来	(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state / indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站) / indicating completion / (after a perception verb, e.g. 看) expressing preliminary judgment / also pr. [qi3lai5]


起 qǐ	起 \| 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


来　lái	来 \| 来* \| *来	to come / (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) / hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來｜回来) / ever since (as in 自古以來｜自古以来) / for the past (amount of time) / (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世｜来世) / (between two verbs) in order to / (after a round number) approximately / (used after 得 to indicate possibility, as in 談得來｜谈得来, or after 不 to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來｜吃不来)