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起 — stroke order
Watch how to write 起 (qǐ) stroke by stroke. 起 has 10 strokes and means “to begin”. It appears in common words such as 一起 (in the same place) and 起來 (to stand up). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 起
The most common words that use 起 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
一起yīqǐin the same place起來qǐlaito stand up發起fāqǐto originate起床qǐchuángto get out of bed在一起zàiyīqǐtogether想起xiǎngqǐto recall
How 起 is written
- Radical
- 走
- Components
- 走 ＋ 己
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 走 and a phonetic component 己 (walk).