起来
Traditional form:
起來
Pinyin (reading):
qilai
Definitions:
- (after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state
- indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站 (zhàn))
- indicating completion
- (after a perception verb, e.g. 看 (kàn)) expressing preliminary judgment
- also pr. (qilǎi)
Characters:
- 起 - to begin, to initiate; to rise, to stand up
- 来 - to arrive, to come, to return; in the future, later on
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