Prick up your ears.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
竖起
to erect (a tent etc)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to erect (a tent etc)
02
to prick up (one's ears)
03
to raise (one's eyebrows)
04
to stick up (one's thumb)
05
to turn up (one's collar)
06
(of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 竖起 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 竖起 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I pricked up my ears.
We were all ears when he started to tell us his secret.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 竖起.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 竖起.
Directly before
- 都竖起1
- 我竖起1
- 耳朵竖起1
Directly after
- 竖起了2
- 竖起你1
- 竖起来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 竖起
What does 竖起 mean in Chinese?
竖起 (shùqǐ) means to erect (a tent etc).
How do you pronounce 竖起?
竖起 is pronounced shùqǐ.
Is 竖起 an HSK word?
竖起 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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