Character Details
| get up/ start (to); {MW} incidents of something | Ascii: 22352 | w471 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 起 | qǐ | tchee | 3 | 走 (walk) + 己 (self) → rise; start | 起 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Before you begin to walk through the jungle, make sure you have your strongest shoes because you might step on and rouse a sleeping snake. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - rise, start | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Shall we go and have a coffee together | - Wake up! | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 157 - 角 | jiǎo | red | horn | horn shape | 角 解 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 走 (walk) + 己 (self) → rise; start | 走 (semantic) | 己 (phonetic) | phonetic from 己 | ||||||||