CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

起身

qǐshēn

to get up

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

to get up

to leave

to set forth

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 起身 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 起身 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我要睡到八点半才起身。wǒ yào shuì dào bā diǎn bàn cái qǐ shēn。

I will sleep until it is half past eight.

汤姆和玛丽从他们各自的书桌前站起身来。tāng mǔ hé mǎ lì cóng tā men gè zì de shū zhuō qián zhàn qǐ shēn lái。

Tom and Mary got up from their desks.

若有人争斗，一人以石头或拳头打了邻人，虽未致死，却使其卧床不起：若其后能起身、扶杖行走於外，则打人者可免於刑责，但须赔偿对方因此耽误的工钱，并承担其医治的费用。ruò yǒu rén zhēng dòu， yī rén yǐ shí tou huò quán tou dǎ le lín rén， suī wèi zhì sǐ， què shǐ qí wò chuáng bù qǐ： ruò qí hòu néng qǐ shēn、 fú zhàng xíng zǒu yú wài， zé dǎ rén zhě kě miǎn yú xíng zé， dàn xū péi cháng duì fāng yīn cǐ dān wù de gōng qián， bìng chéng dān qí yī zhì de fèi yòng。

If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 起身.

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

Directly before

地起身1
才起身1
他起身1
正起身1
老师起身1

Directly after

起身去1
起身给1
起身互相1
起身来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 起身

What does 起身 mean in Chinese?

起身 (qǐshēn) means to get up.

How do you pronounce 起身?

起身 is pronounced qǐshēn.

Is 起身 an HSK word?

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

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