起

PINYIN

qǐ

DEFINITION

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
(before place or time) starting from
classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
classifier for groups: batch, group

EXAMPLE

起床 / qǐ chuáng
to get out of bed