You remind me of your father.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
想起
to recall
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to recall
02
to think of
03
to call to mind
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 想起 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 想起 appears in 56 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I suddenly thought of my dead mother.
This song makes me think of when I was young.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 想起.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 想起.
Directly before
- 我想起25
- 会想起10
- 回想起3
- 不想起2
- 忽然想起1
Directly after
- 想起了17
- 想起我8
- 想起你5
- 想起童年3
- 想起他3
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 想起
What does 想起 mean in Chinese?
想起 (xiǎngqǐ) means to recall.
How do you pronounce 想起?
想起 is pronounced xiǎngqǐ.
Is 想起 an HSK word?
想起 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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