驚起

惊起
jīngqǐ
  1. to give a start
  2. to startle (an animal etc)

CEDICT

Entry Composition

1 驚 jīng
  1. to startle
  2. to be frightened
  3. to be scared
  4. alarm
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

Related entries

驚 jīng
  1. to startle
  2. to be frightened
  3. to be scared
  4. alarm
这惊到我了。

This startled me.

Source: Tatoeba

駭 hài
  1. to astonish
  2. to startle
  3. to hack (computing, loanword)
驚動 jīngdòng
  1. to alarm
  2. to startle
  3. to disturb