She asked him how to turn on the machine.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
起动
to start up (a motor)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to start up (a motor)
02
to launch (a computer application)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 起动 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 起动 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I need to jump start my car.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 起动.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 起动.
Directly before
- 助推起动1
- 麽起动1
Directly after
- 起动我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 起动
What does 起动 mean in Chinese?
起动 (qǐdòng) means to start up (a motor).
How do you pronounce 起动?
起动 is pronounced qǐdòng.
Is 起动 an HSK word?
起动 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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