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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

扬起

yángqǐ

to raise one's head

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to raise one's head

02

to perk up

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 扬起 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 扬起 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

克里斯扬起他的剑。kè lǐ sī yáng qǐ tā de jiàn。

Chris swung his sword!

一骑骏马扬起红尘,让贵妃展露笑颜;没有人知道,这是荔枝送来了。yī qí jùn mǎ yáng qǐ hóng chén, ràng guì fēi zhǎn lù xiào yán; méi yǒu rén zhī dào, zhè shì lì zhī sòng lái le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 扬起.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 扬起.

Directly before

  • 克里斯扬起1
  • 骏马扬起1

Directly after

  • 扬起他1
  • 扬起红尘1
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 扬起

What does 扬起 mean in Chinese?

扬起 (yángqǐ) means to raise one's head.

How do you pronounce 扬起?

扬起 is pronounced yángqǐ.

Is 扬起 an HSK word?

扬起 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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