起

The component in the top right corner is written as 巳 according to Hong Kong and Taiwan standards (traditional Chinese script) and 己 according to the writing standards of mainland China (simplified Chinese), Japan, Korea and Vietnam.

起 (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))

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• 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

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, OC *kʰɯʔ) : semantic 走 + phonetic 巳 (OC *ljɯʔ, *lɯs).

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, Hakka, Min, Wu) to construct; to build

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

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 qǐzǐ  ―  screwdriver

9. (in 從/由……起 structures) from
10. particle placed after verbs to indicate upward movement; ... up

    拿起  ―  náqǐ  ―  to pick up; to lift

11. particle placed after verbs to indicate the beginning of a continued action
12. (used with 不 or 得 after verbs) up to a certain standard; to be able to stand or afford
13. particle placed after verbs to indicate the involvement of a person or thing in the action
14. Classifier for incidents: cases
15. Classifier for batches or groups.

(grade 3 “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); おこる (okoru, 起こる, Jōyō); おこす (okosu, 起こす, Jōyō); たつ (tatsu, 起つ)

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

1. beginning

起

• Kun: ふきﾟるん (起きﾟるん, fukirun)

• IPA^(key): /ɸukiɾuŋ/

起 (hiragana ふきﾟるん, romaji fukirun)

1. to wake up

起

• Kun: うきㇲ゙ (起きㇲ゙, ukiz)

• IPA^(key): /ukiz̩/

起 (hiragana うきㇲ゙, romaji ukiz)

1. to wake up

起

• Kun: うきゆん (起きゆん, ukiyun)

• IPA^(key): /ʔukijuŋ/

起 (hiragana うきゆん, romaji ukiyun)

1. to wake up

起 (khởi, khỉ)

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起

• Kun: うきん (起きん, ukin), うきるん (起きるん, ukirun)

• IPA^(key): /ʔukin/

起 (hiragana うきん, romaji ukin)

1. to wake up

• IPA^(key): /ʔukiɾuŋ/

起 (hiragana うきるん, romaji ukirun)

1. to wake up

起

• Kun: うぎるん (起ぎるん, ugirun)

• IPA^(key): /uɡiɾuŋ/

起 (hiragana うぎるん, romaji ugirun)

1. to wake up