起

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Han character

起 (radical 156 走+3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 土人口山 (GORU), 土人尸山 (GOSU), four-corner 4780₁, composition ⿺走己)

1. rise, stand up
2. go up
3. begin
4. numerary adjunct for legal case

Note: The right part can be seen as 巳 instead of 己 in some old printings.

References

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

起 (Jyutping hei2, Yale hei2)

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Japanese

Kanji

起

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: こ (ko)
• Kan’on: き (ki)
• Kun: おきる (okiru), おこる (okoru), たつ (tatsu)

Compounds

• 起因
• 起業
• 起原, 起源
• 起算
• 起床
• 起承転結
• 起訴
• 機動
• 起伏
• 起予
• 起用
• 起立

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Korean

Hanja

起 (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

起 (Pinyin dì (di4), qǐ (qi3), Wade-Giles ti⁴, ch'i³)

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Compounds

• 起來
• 起床
• 起义, 起兵
• 起伏

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Middle Chinese

Han character

起 (*kiə̌)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

起 (POJ khí)

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Vietnamese

Han character

起 (khởi, khỉ)

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