起

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-corner 4780₁, composition ⿺走巳(HT) or ⿺走己(GJKV))

• 𛀪

• 𠺬, 𭡳, 𤠳, 𬏌, 𧽇, 𮔸, 𧽈, 𫎼, 𲃐

• 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 in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Perhaps from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kyi (“to lift, raise, awake”); cognate with Burmese ချီ (hkyi, “to lift”) (STEDT).

起

1. to rise; to go up; to move up
2. to stand up; to rise
3. to break out; to grow
4. to start; to begin; to become; to take
5. to initiate; to instigate; to trigger off
6. (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese, Gan, Hakka, Min, Pinghua, Wu, Xiang) to construct; to build

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

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

   ni¹ dung⁶ lau^4-2 hai⁶ san¹ hei² ge³.

   This building is new.

7. to prepare; to draw up; to come up with
8. to extract; to pull out; to remove

   螺絲起子／螺丝起子  ―  luósī qǐzi  ―  screwdriver

   起骨 [Cantonese]  ―  hei² gwat¹   ―  to debone

9. (Hokkien, Teochew) to board; to get on (a vehicle)
10. (in 從/由……起 structures) from
11. and above; at least; from

    新款iPhone售價5999元起。／新款iPhone售价5999元起。  ―  Xīnkuǎn iPhone shòujià 5999 yuán qǐ.  ―  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 certain standard; to be able to stand or afford

    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 dé qǐ chē, dàn mǎi bù qǐ fáng.

    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 for incidents and legal cases.
17. Classifier for batches or groups.

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

• “Entry #6299”, 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)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese 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. to rise, to wake up
2. to rise, to stand 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)

From Middle Chinese 起 (MC khiX).

• IPA^(key):

起(き) • (ki) 

1. to rise; to get up; to stand up
2. to start; to begin; to cause; to bring about
3. origin; cause; beginning

起 (eumhun 일어날 기 (ireonal gi))

1. hanja form^? of 기 (“to rise, to wake up”)

• 기상 (起床, gisang, “waking up”)
• 기동 (起動, gidong, “the act of starting up a machine, especially a computer”)
• 기립박수 (起立拍手, giripbaksu, “standing ovation”)

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: ふき゚るん (fukirun, 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. To start 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)