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起
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qǐ
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- 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
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2
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來
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lái
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- to come
- (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
- hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來 huílai)
- ever since (as in 自古以來 zìgǔyǐlái)
- for the past (amount of time)
- (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世 láishì)
- (between two verbs) in order to
- (after a round number) approximately
- (used after 得 dé to indicate possibility, as in 談得來 tándelái, or after 不 bù to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來 chībulái)
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