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起qǐ始shǐ
  1. to originate

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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起
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

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

Pinyin
qǐ
Strokes
10
Frequency
687 of 2500
Words starting with 起Words ending in 起Anywhere in a word
始
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to begin, to start, then, only then

Pinyin
shǐ
Strokes
8
Frequency
21104 of 2500
Words starting with 始Words ending in 始Anywhere in a word