That boy talks as if he were a grown up.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
说起
to mention
IN A VIDEO说起
See this word with its surrounding sentence, pinyin, translation, and timestamp.
DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to mention
02
to bring up (a subject)
03
with regard to
04
as for
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 说起 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 说起 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He talks as if he knows everything.
Speaking of traffic accidents, I saw one last year.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 说起.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 说起.
Directly before
- 男孩说起1
- 他说起1
- 任何人说起1
Directly after
- 说起话2
- 说起玛莉1
- 说起交通事故1
- 说起过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 说起
What does 说起 mean in Chinese?
说起 (shuōqǐ) means to mention.
How do you pronounce 说起?
说起 is pronounced shuōqǐ.
Is 说起 an HSK word?
说起 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
SEE IT IN CONTEXT
Upload a videoTurn your own Chinese video into a searchable learning file.
Keep English optional, place pinyin above Hanzi, and export subtitles named after your video.