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起 qǐ

qǐ verb to arise; to get up
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: An intransitive verb, in the sense of 站立 (Guoyu '起' v 1; Kroll 2015 '起' 1, p. 357; Mathews 1931 '起', p. 71; Rouzer 2007, p. 39; Unihan '起'; XHZD '起' 1, p. 586)
qǐ measure word case; instance; batch; group
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: 起 can be used for occurrences or unpredictable events, such as a case, instance, etc, or for groups of things, such asbatch, group, etc (Guoyu '起' n 2; XHZD '起' 9, p. 587)
qǐ verb to rise; to raise
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '起' 2, p. 357; Unihan '起'; XHZD '起' 2, p. 586)
qǐ verb to grow out of; to bring forth; to emerge
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 发动 (Guoyu '起' v 4; Kroll 2015 '起' 1b, p. 357; XHZD '起' 3, p. 586)
qǐ verb to appoint (to an official post); to take up a post
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 出仕 (Guoyu '起' v 7; Kroll 2015 '起' 2e, p. 357)
qǐ verb to start
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 开始 (Guoyu '起' v 3; Kroll 2015 '起' 1e, p. 357; Mathews 1931 '起', p. 72; Unihan '起'; XHZD '起' 4, p. 586)
qǐ verb to establish; to build
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: 起 is synonymous with 建造 or 建立 in this sense (Guoyu '起' v 10; Kroll 2015 '起' 2d, p. 357; XHZD '起' 7, p. 587)
qǐ verb to draft; to draw up (a plan)
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 拟订 (Guoyu '起' v 8; XHZD '起' 6, p. 587)
qǐ noun opening sentence; opening verse
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Of a poem (Guoyu '起' n 1; XHZD '起' 4, p. 587)
qǐ verb to get out of bed
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 起床 (Guoyu '起' v 2)
qǐ verb to recover; to heal
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 复甦 (Guoyu '起' v 5; Kroll 2015 '起' 2a, p. 357)
qǐ verb to take out; to extract
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 取出 (Guoyu '起' v 6)
qǐ auxiliary verb marks the beginning of an action
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Placed after a verb as a complement (Guoyu '起' auxiliary verb; Kroll 2015 '起' 4, p. 357; XHZD '起' 11, p. 587)
qǐ auxiliary verb marks the sufficiency of an action
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Placed after a verb as a complement (Guoyu '起' auxiliary verb; XHZD '起' 10, p. 587)
qǐ verb to call back from mourning
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '起' 5, p. 357)
qǐ verb to take place; to occur
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 发生 (XHZD '起' 5, p. 587)
qǐ preposition from
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 从 (Kroll 2015 '起' 3, p. 357; XHZD '起' 8, p. 587)
qǐ verb to conjecture
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '起' 2c, p. 357)
qǐ verb stand up; utthāna
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: utthāna, Japanese: ki, Tibetan: ldang ba (BCSD '起', p. 1116; DJBT '起', p. 424; Mahāvyutpatti 'utthānam'; MW 'utthāna'; SH '起', p. 39)
qǐ verb arising; utpāda
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: utpāda (Dhammajoti 2013, p. 9; Edgerton 1953 'utpāda', p. 125; MW 'utpāda'; SH '起', p. 39)

Contained in

起灭(起滅) saṃsāra; life and death
菩萨投身饴饿虎起塔因缘经(菩薩投身飴餓虎起塔因緣經) Pusa Toushen Yi E Hu Qi Ta Yinyuan Jing
六相缘起(六相緣起) six mutual interdependencies
起止处(起止處) latrine
白衣金幢二婆罗门缘起经(白衣金幢二婆羅門緣起經) The Story of the Two Brahmins Vāsiṣṭa and Bhāradvāja; Baiyi Jin Chuang Er Poluomen Yuanqi Jing
起信疏 Commentary on the Treatise on the Awakening of Faith
起世经(起世經) Beginning of the World; Qi Shi Jing
好话从我说起(好話從我說起) be the one to start speaking food words
孤起 gatha; verses
佛五百弟子自说本起经(佛五百弟子自說本起經) Story about Five Hundred Buddha Disciples; Fo Wu Bai Dizi Zi Shuo Benqi Jing
大乘起信论内义略探记(大乘起信論內義略探記) Outline of the Treatise on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna
本起 jātaka; a jātaka story
佛说分别善恶所起经(佛說分別善惡所起經) Fo Shuo Fenbie Shan E Suo Qi Jing
方等本起经(方等本起經) Lalitavistara sūtra

Also contained in

高起、闭起、比起、卷起、起小、起敬、白手起家、早起、起床、商飙徐起、起来、突起、黄巢起义、没起子、聚在一起、起源、勃起、躲不起、勾起、想起、范氏起电机、惹不起、再起、胀起、发起者、铆起来、起落装置、浮起、竖起大拇指、蔚起、鼓起勇气、磨起泡、秦末农民起义、经不起、起居室、起意、罐头起子

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Truncated for common words

Scroll 6 Notes on the Viṁśatikāvṛtti 成唯識論述記 — count: 350
Scroll 5 The Lamp of Discernment (Prajñāpradīpa) 般若燈論釋 — count: 343
Scroll 3 Dasheng Yi Zhang 大乘義章 — count: 326
Scroll 5 Cheng Weishi Lun Liaoyi Deng 成唯識論了義燈 — count: 275
Scroll 7 Notes on the Viṁśatikāvṛtti 成唯識論述記 — count: 269
Scroll 5 Notes on the Viṁśatikāvṛtti 成唯識論述記 — count: 227
Scroll 5 Dasheng Yi Zhang 大乘義章 — count: 224
Scroll 13 Notes on the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya 俱舍論記 — count: 211
Scroll 7 Dasheng Yi Zhang 大乘義章 — count: 210
Scroll 25 Śāriputrābhidharmaśāstra (Shelifu Apitan Lun) 舍利弗阿毘曇論 — count: 209

Collocations

见起 (見起) 婆羅門於本劫本見起論 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 14 — count: 14
起论 (起論) 婆羅門於本劫本見起論 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 14 — count: 13
起塔 (起塔) 起塔立精舍 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 12
坐起 (坐起) 往來與剎利眾坐起言語 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 3 — count: 9
定起 (定起) 從空處定起 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 4 — count: 8
论起 (論起) 有異論起不能如法而往滅之 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 12 — count: 5
王起 (王起) 初從樹王起 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 4
起无数 (起無數) 起無數惡 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 9 — count: 4
起塔庙 (起塔廟) 四衢起塔廟 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 3 — count: 4
起迎 (起迎) 忉利天亦不起迎 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 5 — count: 4