Kanji1 / 10
起 kanji
rouse, wake up, get up
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
キ
Kun readings
おきるおこるおこすおこすたつ
Words with 起
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —誘起evocation; inducement; giving rise to
- —励起excitation; stimulation; revitalization; reinvigoration
- —生起occurrence; taking place; happening
- —惹起bringing about; cause; provocation
- —継起occurring in succession
- —起座sitting up in bed
- —発起originating (something); coming up with the idea; starting (something); initiating; proposing; spiritual awakening; resolution
- —蜂起uprising; revolt
- —起毛nap raising
- —起句opening line; opening line of a (Chinese) poem
- —起死saving from the brink of death
- —起結beginning and end
- —起筆beginning to write; beginning of a brush-stroke
- —共起co-occurrence
- —起票voucher issuance; slip issuing; creating a support or maintenance ticket
- —弱起anacrusis
- —呼起recollection; calling to mind
- —起龕ceremonial removal of the coffin from the house (lay person) or temple (priest) (Zen Buddhism)
- —起首start; beginning; origin
- —崛起standing out from the crowd; dominating; rising abruptly; towering high