Stroke order

Stroke order

The component in the top right corner is written as巳 according to Hong Kong and Taiwan standards and己 according to the writing standards of mainland China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.

起 (Kangxi radical 156,走+3, 10 strokes,cangjie input土人口山 (GORU) or土人尸山 (GOSU),four-corner4780₁,composition⿺走巳(HT) or⿺走己(GJKV))

• 𛀪

• 𠺬, 𤠳, 𧽇, 𧽈

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 1215, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37048
• Dae Jaweon: page 1683, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3476, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8D77

• Unihan data for U+2F9D7

Historical forms of the character起
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)	Liushutong (compiled inMing)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*kʰɯʔ): semantic 走 + phonetic 巳(OC*ljɯʔ, *lɯs).

Perhaps fromProto-Sino-Tibetan*kyi(“to lift, raise, awake”); cognate withBurmeseချီ(hkyi,“to lift”) (STEDT).

起

1. torise; togo up; tomove up
2. tostand up; torise
3. tobreak out; togrow
4. tostart; tobegin; tobecome; totake
5. toinitiate; toinstigate; totrigger off
6. (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese, Gan, Hakka, Min, Pinghua, Wu, Xiang) toconstruct; tobuild

   起緊嘅線路／起紧嘅线路[Cantonese]  ― hei² gan² ge³ sin³ lou⁶[Jyutping]  ―  routes currently beingbuilt

   呢棟樓係新起嘅。[Cantonese,trad.]
   呢栋楼系新起嘅。[Cantonese,simp.]

   ni¹ dung⁶ lau^4-2 hai⁶ san¹hei² ge³.[Jyutping]

   This building is new.

7. toprepare; todraw up; tocome up with
8. toextract; topull out; toremove

   螺絲起子／螺丝起子  ― luósīqǐzi  ―  screwdriver

   起骨[Cantonese]  ― hei² gwat¹[Jyutping]  ―  to debone

9. (Hokkien, Teochew) toboard; toget on (avehicle)
10. (in從/由……起 structures)from
11. andabove; at least; from

    新款iPhone售價5999元起。／新款iPhone售价5999元起。  ― Xīnkuǎn iPhone shòujià 5999 yuánqǐ.  ―  The new iPhone is priced from ¥5999.

12. particle placed after verbs to indicate upward movement; ...up

    拿起  ― náqǐ  ―  to pick up; to lift

13. particle placed after verbs to indicate the beginning of a continued action
14. (used with不 or得 after verbs)up to a certainstandard; to be able tostand orafford

    我買得起車，但買不起房。[MSC,trad.]
    我买得起车，但买不起房。[MSC,simp.]

    Wǒ mǎi déqǐ chē, dàn mǎi bùqǐ fáng.[Pinyin]

    I can afford to buy a car, but not a house.

15. particle placed after verbs to indicate the involvement of a person or thing in the action
16. Classifier forincidents andlegalcases.
17. Classifier forbatches orgroups.

• (classifier for legal cases):宗 (zōng),樁／桩 (zhuāng)

• “起”, in重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese),National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan),2021.
• “起”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03992

Shinjitai	起
Kyūjitai [1]	起󠄁 起+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	起󠄃 起+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. torise, towake up

   起(お)きた。

   Oki ta.

   are (you)awake?

2. to rise, tostand up

• Go-on:こ(ko)
• Kan-on:き(ki,Jōyō)
• Kun:おきる(okiru,起きる,Jōyō)^{←おく(oku,起く,historical)}、おこす(okosu,起こす,Jōyō)、おこる(okoru,起こる,Jōyō)、たつ(tatsu,起つ)、たてる(tateru,起てる)^{←たつ(tatu,起つ,historical)}
• Nanori:おき(oki)、おこす(okosu)、かず(kazu)、たつ(tatsu)、ゆき(yuki)

FromMiddle Chinese起 (MC khiX).

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起(き)• (ki) 

1. torise; toget up; tostand up
2. tostart; tobegin; tocause; tobring about
3. origin;cause;beginning

起 (eumhun일어날기(ireonal gi))

1. hanja form^? of기(“torise, towake up”)

• 기상 (起床,gisang, “waking up”)
• 기동 (起動,gidong, “the act ofstarting up amachine, especially acomputer”)
• 기립박수 (起立拍手,giripbaksu, “standing ovation”)

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun:ふき゚るん(fungirun,起き゚るん)

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun:うきㇲ゙(ukidz,起きㇲ゙)

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun:うきゆん(ukiyun,起きゆん)

起:Hán Nôm readings:khởi,khỉ

1. Tostart something
2. To stand up

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun:うきん(ukin,起きん)、うきるん(ukirun,起きるん)

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun:うぎるん(ugirun,起ぎるん)

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