吴起

吳起
Wú Qǐ
Wu Qi (440-381 BC), military leader and politician of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), author of Wuzi 吴子 Wúzǐ, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武经七书 Wǔjīng Qīshū

CEDICT

Homographs

吴起 Wúqǐ Wuqi county in Yan'an 延安 Yánān, Shaanxi

Entry Composition

1 吴 Wú
  1. surname Wu
  2. area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai
  3. name of states in southern China at different historical periods
2 起 qǐ
  1. to rise
  2. to raise
  3. to get up
  4. to set out
  5. to start
  6. to appear
  7. to launch
  8. to initiate (action)
  9. to draft
  10. to establish
  11. to get (from a depot or counter)
  12. verb suffix, to start
  13. starting from (a time, place, price etc)
  14. classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
  15. classifier for groups: batch, group