挑起

tiāoqǐ

to carry on a shoulder pole

Wiktionary

Homographs

挑起 tiǎoqǐ
  1. to provoke
  2. to stir up
  3. to incite

Entry Composition

=1 挑 tiāo
  1. to carry on a shoulder pole
  2. to choose
  3. to pick
  4. to nitpick
=1 挑 tiǎo
  1. to raise
  2. to dig up
  3. to poke
  4. to prick
  5. to incite
  6. to stir up
=1 挑 tāo only used in 挑達／挑达 (tāotà, “walking back and forth; coming and going”)
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