(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state; indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站[zhan4]); indicating completion; (after a perception verb, e.g. 看[kan4]) expressing preliminary judgment; also pr. [qi3lai5]

to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qi3lai2]

I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint

seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be

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; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group

to recall; to think of; to call to mind

to give rise to; to lead to; to cause; to arouse

amazing; terrific; extraordinary

to get out of bed; to get up

to sue; to bring a lawsuit against; to prosecute

to mention; to bring up; (lit. and fig.) to lift; to raise; to initiate (legal proceedings)

(of an aircraft or rocket) to take off; to lift off; (fig.) (of an enterprise etc) to start to develop rapidly

compared with

to mention; to bring up (a subject); with regard to; as for

at the minimum; at the very least

to lift up

to heave; to lift; to raise up; to uphold

to raise; to hoist; to rise

to stand; Stand up!

originally; at first; at the outset

to originate; to initiate; to launch (an attack, an initiative etc); to start; to propose sth (for the first time)

(of a sound) to come forth; (of a sound source) to ring out; to sound; to go off

erection; to have an erection

to get up; to leave; to set forth

to look down upon; to despise

to get together

origin; to originate; to come from

to provoke; to stir up; to incite

to get up early

to mention; to speak of; to talk about

to catch fire; to cook; to get angry

to recall; to recollect

cannot afford; can't afford buying

to originate

starting point

to lift; to raise (a lid etc); (of a storm) to surge; to stir up (waves etc); (fig.) to trigger; set off (a wave of popularity, a controversy etc)

to arouse; to evoke; to cause; to stir up

to vow; to swear an oath

to look down upon; to hold in contempt

to set out; to set in motion; the start (of some activity)

to rise abruptly (to a towering position); to tower over; to spring up; to emerge suddenly; the emergence (e.g. of a power)

to rise from the dead (idiom); fig. an unexpected recovery

(Tw) (loanword) cheese

uprising; insurrection; revolt

to erect (a tent etc); to prick up (one's ears); to raise (one's eyebrows); to stick up (one's thumb); to turn up (one's collar); (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)

to summon one's courage

to make a draft; to draw up (plans)

(of a ship) to set sail; (of an airplane) to take off

to ignite; to light; fig. to spark off (hopes, controversy, flames of revolution)