起來
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See also: 起来
Chinese
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): hei2 loi4
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hí-lòi
- Jin (Wiktionary): qi2 lai1
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 5chi-le
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˇ ㄌㄞˊ → ㄑㄧˇ ˙ㄌㄞ (toneless final syllable variant)
- Tongyong Pinyin: cǐlåi
- Wade–Giles: chʻi3-lai5
- Yale: chǐ-lai
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chii.lai
- Palladius: цилай (cilaj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹ laɪ̯³⁵/ → /t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴ laɪ̯⁴/
- (Dungan)
- Cyrillic and Wiktionary: челэ (či͡əle, II-I)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰiə⁵¹ lɛ²⁴/
- (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: hei2 loi4
- Yale: héi lòih
- Cantonese Pinyin: hei2 loi4
- Guangdong Romanization: héi2 loi4
- Sinological IPA (key): /hei̯³⁵ lɔːi̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hí-lòi
- Hakka Romanization System: hiˋ loiˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: hi3 loi2
- Sinological IPA: /hi³¹ loi̯¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: qi2 lai1
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /t͡ɕʰi⁵³ lai¹¹/
- (Taiyuan)+
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí--lâi / khiai
- Tâi-lô: khí--lâi / khiai
- (Hokkien)
Note:
- 起 is in the citation tone and 來 is toneless when 起來 is at the end of a phrase;
- both 起 and 來 are toneless as a complement;
- both 起 and 來 undergo tone sandhi when the 起來 is not at the end of a phrase;
- khiai - contraction.
Verb
起⫽來 (verb-complement)
- to rise up; to get up
- to get up; to get out of bed
- placed after a verb to indicate that the action has started
- placed after a verb to form a copular verb, expressing evaluation based on initial perception
- (Southern Min) to go up
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to go north
Synonyms
Derived terms
- 全世界無產者，聯合起來 / 全世界无产者，联合起来 (quánshìjiè wúchǎnzhě, liánhé qǐlái)
- 看起來 / 看起来 (kànqilai)
- 站起來 / 站起来 (zhàn qǐlai)
- 聽起來 / 听起来 (tīngqǐlai)
Further reading
- “起來”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
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