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Character Decomposition
起=走+己
Etymology
walk
Meanings
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
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Words with 起 764 total
Idioms with 起 103 total
(idiom) to build up from nothing; to start from scratch白手起家bái shǒu qǐ jiāLift a rock only to have one's toes squashed · lift a rock only to drop it on one's own feet · be hoist with (or by) one's own petard搬起石头打自己的脚bān qǐ shí tóu dǎ zì jǐ de jiǎoto follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition · forming a bridge between earlier and later stages承上起下chéng shàng qǐ xià