起来起來 in English
- (after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state / indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站[zhan4]) / indicating completion / (after a perception verb, e.g. 看[kan4]) expressing preliminary judgment / also pr. [qi3lai5]
Measure word
- 听 tīng to listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey; a can (loanword from English tin); classifier for canned beverages; to let be... attested in use
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
起
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Warring States script 戰國.燕 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
来
These are the forms of 來, the traditional character: 来 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 17 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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一天天热起来了。
It is becoming warmer day by day.
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三十年前的时装款式又流行起来了。
Fashions of thirty years ago have come back in style.
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两个孩子的年龄加起来和他们的父亲相当。
The ages of the two children put together was equivalent to that of their father.
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两个男孩儿吵起来了。
The two boys are quarreling.
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丹尼尔看起来像个维吾尔族人。
Daniel looks like an Uyghur.
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从远看得话，这个石头看起来像人的脸。
Seen from a distance, the stone looks like a human face.
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他不需要那么早起来。
He doesn't need to get up early.
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他们都哈哈大笑起来。
They all burst out laughing.