起来

Character by character

• 起qǐ10 strokesHSK 1rise, stand up; go up; begin
• 来lái7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 來come, coming; return, returning

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Example sentences

• 起来吧！

  Qǐ lai ba

  Get up!

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 起来. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 来láiHSK 1

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

• 一起yī qǐHSK 1

  in the same place; together; with; altogether (in total)

• 起qǐHSK 1

  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

• 出来chū láiHSK 1

  to come out; to appear; to arise

• 回来huí laiHSK 1

  to return; to come back

• 下来xià laiHSK 3

  to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders)

• 来自lái zìHSK 2

  to come from (a place); From: (in email header)

• 带来dài láiHSK 2

  to bring; (fig.) to bring about; to produce

• 过来guò láiHSK 2

  to come over; to manage; to handle; to be able to take care of

• 未来wèi láiHSK 4

  future; tomorrow; approaching; coming; pending

• 看来kàn laiHSK 4

  apparently; it seems that

• 原来yuán láiHSK 2

  original; former; originally; formerly; at first; so, actually, as it turns out

• 来到lái dàoHSK 1

  to arrive; to come

• 越来越yuè lái yuèHSK 2

  more and more

• 后来hòu láiHSK 2

  afterwards; later; newly arrived

• 本来běn láiHSK 3

  original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course

• 以来yǐ láiHSK 3

  since (a previous event)

• 引起yǐn qǐHSK 4

  to give rise to; to lead to; to cause; to arouse

• 从来cóng láiHSK 3

  always; at all times; never (if used in negative sentence)

• 对不起duì bu qǐHSK 1

  I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint

• 想起xiǎng qǐHSK 2

  to recall; to think of; to call to mind

• 进来jìn láiHSK 1

  to come in

• 来源lái yuánHSK 4

  source (of information etc); origin

• 将来jiāng láiHSK 3

  in the future; future; the future