起

The component in the top right corner is written as 巳 according to Hong Kong and Taiwan standards and 己 according to the writing standards of mainland China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.

起 (Kangxi radical 156, 走+3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 土人口山 (GORU) or 土人尸山 (GOSU), four-corner 4780₁, composition ⿺走巳(HT) or ⿺走己(GJKV))

• 𛀪

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1215, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37048
• Dae Jaweon: page 1683, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3476, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8D77
• Unihan data for U+2F9D7

Historical forms of the character 起
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰɯʔ) : semantic 走 + phonetic 巳 (OC *ljɯʔ, *lɯs).

起

1. to rise; to go up; to move up
2. to stand up; to rise
3. to break out; to grow
4. to start; to begin; to become; to take
5. to initiate; to instigate; to trigger off
6. (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese, Gan, Hakka, Min, Pinghua, Wu, Xiang) to construct; to build

   起緊嘅線路／起紧嘅线路 [Cantonese]  ―  hei² gan² ge³ sin³ lou⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  routes currently being built

   呢棟樓係新起嘅。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   呢栋楼系新起嘅。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   ni¹ dung⁶ lau^4-2 hai⁶ san¹ hei² ge³. [Jyutping]

   This building is new.

7. to prepare; to draw up; to come up with
8. to extract; to pull out; to remove

   螺絲起子／螺丝起子  ―  luósī qǐzi  ―  screwdriver

   起骨 [Cantonese]  ―  hei² gwat¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to debone

9. (Hokkien, Teochew) to board; to get on (a vehicle)
10. (in 從/由……起 structures) from
11. particle placed after verbs to indicate upward movement; ... up

    拿起  ―  náqǐ  ―  to pick up; to lift

12. particle placed after verbs to indicate the beginning of a continued action
13. (used with 不 or 得 after verbs) up to a certain standard; to be able to stand or afford
14. particle placed after verbs to indicate the involvement of a person or thing in the action
15. Classifier for incidents and legal cases.
16. Classifier for batches or groups.

• (classifier for legal cases): 宗 (zōng), 樁／桩 (zhuāng)

• “Entry #6299”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
• “起”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03992

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to rise, to wake up
2. to rise, to stand up

• Go-on: こ (ko)
• Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kun: おきる (okiru, 起きる, Jōyō)^{←おく (oku, 起く, historical)}; おこす (okosu, 起こす, Jōyō); おこる (okoru, 起こる, Jōyō); たつ (tatsu, 起つ); たてる (tateru, 起てる)^{←たつ (tatu, 起つ, historical)}
• Nanori: おき (oki); おこす (okosu); かず (kazu); たつ (tatsu); ゆき (yuki)

• IPA^(key): [kʲi]

起(き) • (ki) 

1. to rise; to get up; to stand up
2. to start; to begin; to cause; to bring about
3. origin; cause; beginning

起 (eumhun 일어날 기 (ireonal gi))

1. Hanja form^? of 기 (“to rise, to wake up”).

• 기상 (起床, gisang, “waking up”)
• 기동 (起動, gidong, “the act of starting up a machine, especially a computer”)
• 기립박수 (起立拍手, giripbaksu, “standing ovation”)

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Kun: ふき゚るん (fukirun, 起き゚るん)

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Kun: うきㇲ゙ (ukidz, 起きㇲ゙)

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Kun: うきゆん (ukiyun, 起きゆん)

起: Hán Nôm readings: khởi, khỉ

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(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Kun: うきん (ukin, 起きん); うきるん (ukirun, 起きるん)

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Kun: うぎるん (ugirun, 起ぎるん)