想起

Character by character

• 想xiǎng13 strokesHSK 1think, speculate, plan, consider
• 起qǐ10 strokesHSK 1rise, stand up; go up; begin

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 想起. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 想xiǎngHSK 1

  to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)

• 起来qǐ laiHSK 1

  to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qǐ lái]

• 一起yī qǐHSK 1

  in the same place; together; with; altogether (in total)

• 起qǐHSK 1

  to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group

• 想到xiǎng dàoHSK 2

  to think of; to call to mind; to anticipate

• 引起yǐn qǐHSK 4

  to give rise to; to lead to; to cause; to arouse

• 想法xiǎng fǎHSK 2

  way of thinking; opinion; notion; to think of a way (to do sth)

• 梦想mèng xiǎngHSK 4

  (fig.) to dream of; dream

• 思想sī xiǎngHSK 3

  thought; thinking; idea; ideology

• 对不起duì bu qǐHSK 1

  I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint

• 想象xiǎng xiàngHSK 4

  to imagine; to envision; imagination

• 起床qǐ chuángHSK 1

  to get out of bed; to get up

• 理想lǐ xiǎngHSK 2

  an ideal; a dream; ideal; perfect

• 看起来kàn qǐ laiHSK 3

  seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appear to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be

• 想念xiǎng niànHSK 4

  to miss; to remember with longing; to long to see again

• 起诉qǐ sùHSK 6

  to sue; to bring a lawsuit against; to prosecute

• 幻想huàn xiǎngHSK 6

  delusion; fantasy

• 提起tí qǐHSK 5

  to mention; to speak of; to lift; to pick up; to arouse; to raise (a topic, a heavy weight, one's fist, one's spirits etc)

• 起码qǐ mǎHSK 5

  at the minimum; at the very least

• 起飞qǐ fēiHSK 2

  (of an aircraft) to take off

• 想不到xiǎng bu dàoHSK 6

  unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that

• 发起fā qǐHSK 6

  to originate; to initiate; to launch (an attack, an initiative etc); to start; to propose sth (for the first time)

• 了不起liǎo bu qǐHSK 4

  amazing; terrific; extraordinary

• 回想huí xiǎngHSK 7

  to recall; to recollect; to think back