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HSK
(in) the same place / together; in company (with) / altogether; in total / an instance of; a case of (murder, accident, dispute etc)
HSK 1
I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon / to let (sb) down; to disappoint
HSK 1
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  *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
HSK 1
amazing / terrific / extraordinary
HSK 4
to give rise to; to lead to; to cause; to arouse
HSK 4
to mention; to bring up / (lit. and fig.) to lift; to raise / to initiate (legal proceedings)
HSK 5
to look down upon / to despise
HSK 4
to originate / to initiate / to launch (an attack, an initiative etc) / to start / to propose sth (for the first time)
HSK 6
to recall / to think of / to call to mind
HSK 2
to show respect for / to think highly of
HSK 6
cannot afford / can't afford buying
HSK 7-9
to lift; to raise (a lid etc) / (of a storm) to surge; to stir up (waves etc) / (fig.) to trigger; set off (a wave of popularity, a controversy etc)
HSK 7-9
(of a sound) to come forth / (of a sound source) to ring out / to sound / to go off
HSK 7-9
to raise / to hoist / to rise
together
to provoke / to stir up / to incite
HSK 7-9
compared with
HSK 7-9
to summon one's (courage, faith etc) / to puff up (one's cheeks etc) / to bulge / to swell out
to heave / to lift / to raise up / to uphold
to rise abruptly (to a towering position) / to tower over / to spring up / to emerge suddenly / the emergence (e.g. of a power)
HSK 7-9
to pick up
to be able to withstand / to be able to endure
to mention / to speak of / to talk about
HSK 7-9
lit. to return to office after living as a hermit on Mount Dongshan (idiom); fig. to make a comeback
to jump up suddenly / to bound up / to rise up in one bound
to waken (to action) / to rouse (the masses) / to evoke (attention, recollection etc)
HSK 7-9
to lift up
not to let sb down / to treat sb fairly / be worthy of
HSK 7-9
to look down upon; to hold in contempt
HSK 7-9
(of a group of people) to rush into action
towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom) / great oaks from little acorns grow
erection / to have an erection
to ignite / to light / fig. to spark off (hopes, controversy, flames of revolution)
early to bed, early to rise; to keep early hours
to take defeat with bad grace / to be a sore loser / cannot afford to lose
to arouse / to evoke / to cause / to stir up
HSK 7-9
convex / protruding / to protrude / to bulge / to buckle upwards
to be able to pay / affordable
to get up on hind legs (esp. of horse) / to stand / to spring up
to stick up / to point sth up
to rise / to spring up / to burgeon / to be aroused / to come into vogue
HSK 7-9
to emerge as a new force to be reckoned with (idiom)
can't afford to play / (fig.) can't accept it when one loses
to be unable to pay / unaffordable
lit. arising suddenly above the level ground (idiom); sudden emergence of prominent new feature
to raise one's head / to perk up
(idiom) to rise to fame
to evoke / to induce / to call to mind / to pick up with a hook
to rise vigorously / a spirited start
cannot afford / cannot bear the burden
before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved / many twists and turns to a story / one thing after another
can't stand it / to be unable to bear / to be unable to resist
to arise again / to make a comeback / resurgence
to hoist
to originate / origin; genesis / account of the origins of an endeavor
to associate / to think of
provoke, incite / stir up / arouse (attention)
the fire of war in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war
continuously arising / to arise repeatedly
HSK 7-9
to rise high; to spring up
fire beacons on all sides (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war
to purse / to pucker (up)
to mention / to bring up (a subject) / with regard to / as for
to pick up
(idiom) to slam the table and rise to one's feet in indignation
to hang up (a picture etc) / to hoist up (a flag) / (computing) to suspend (a process) / (of a system) to hang / pending (operation)
to give a start / to startle (an animal etc)
to recall / to recollect
(cry of encouragement) / to arise / to stand up / to gain the ascendancy / Come on!
to appear / to emerge / to surface
to surround / to encircle / to enclose / to fence in
lit. to shake one's sleeves and rise (idiom) / fig. to get excited and move to action
to originate
to appear suddenly / projection / bit sticking out
to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)
Wu Qi (440-381 BC), military leader and politician of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), author of Wuzi 吳子|吴子, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书
Wuqi county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi
each new high point replaced by another / (of a movie etc) one climax after another
to feel unconcerned and let matters rest (idiom)
Bai Qi (-258 BC), famous general of Qin 秦國|秦国, the victor at 長平|长平 in 260 BC / same as 公孫起|公孙起
to get up early
to appear on the scene / to arise suddenly
to get together
(slang) it's just the pits! / so unfair! / unbearable
to roll up / to curl up / (of dust etc) to swirl up
Gongsun Qi (-258 BC), famous general of Qin 秦國|秦国, the victor at 長平|长平 in 260 BC / same as Bai Qi 白起
to spring up everywhere / from all around
can't afford to offend / dare not provoke / difficult to deal with / insufferable
to pick up (from the ground with one's hands)
to be unable to stand
to shut
lit. a breeze springs up and creates waves on the water (idiom) / fig. flourishing / thriving / prosperous
to well up / to boil out / to bubble forth / to spurt
bulge
East Pacific Rise (a mid-oceanic ridge stretching from California to Antarctica)
can't avoid / can't hide from / unavoidable
can afford to lose / to take defeat with good grace
to raise / to lift up (curtains, clothing etc)
Qian Qi (c. 710-780), Tang Dynasty poet

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