豎起

竖起
shùqǐ
  1. to erect (a tent etc)
  2. to prick up (one's ears)
  3. to raise (one's eyebrows)
  4. to stick up (one's thumb)
  5. to turn up (one's collar)
  6. (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)

CEDICT

to stick up; to prick up; to become erect

Wiktionary

Examples

豎起你的耳朵。

Prick up your ears.

Source: Tatoeba

我豎起了耳朵聽。

I pricked up my ears.

Source: Tatoeba

Entry Composition

1 豎 shù
  1. to erect
  2. vertical
  3. vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)
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

Containing this entry

豎起大拇指 shùqǐdàmuzhǐ
  1. to give a thumbs-up
  2. to express one's approval
豎起耳朵 shùqǐěrduo to prick up one's ears; to strain to hear sth

Related entries

豎 shù
  1. to erect
  2. vertical
  3. vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)
豎立 shùlì
  1. to erect
  2. to set upright
  3. to stand
安裝 ānzhuāng
  1. to install
  2. to erect
  3. to fix
  4. to mount
  5. installation
我想安裝一台電話。

I want to have a telephone installed.

Source: Tatoeba

架設 jiàshè
  1. to construct
  2. to erect
豎直 shùzhí
  1. vertical
  2. to erect
  3. to set upright
  4. vertical stroke in Chinese characters
  5. young servant (old)
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