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

walk (走) +己 = to rise, to start

走 grounds the meaning in movement and motion — getting up and going. 己 primarily gives the sound qǐ and does not add a separate layer of meaning here.

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Words with 起

源起

yuán qǐ

to originate

瞧不起

qiáo bù qǐ

to look down upon; to hold in contempt

重起炉灶

chóng qǐ lú zào

to start over from scratch (idiom)

金田起义

jīn tián qǐ yì

Jintian Uprising

铆起来

mǎo qǐ lai

variant of 卯起來|卯起来[mao3 qi3 lai5]

钱起

qián qǐ

Qian Qi (c. 710-780), Tang Dynasty poet

闭起

bì qǐ

to shut

蜂起

fēng qǐ

to swarm

陈胜吴广起义

chén shèng wú guǎng qǐ yì

Chen Sheng Wu Guang Uprising (209 BC), near the end of the Qin dynasty

隆起

lóng qǐ

to swell; to bulge

雄起

xióng qǐ

(cry of encouragement)

零起点

líng qǐ diǎn

from zero

More characters with 走