起去

Chinese

		to rise; to raise; to get up	to go; to leave; to remove
trad. (起去)		起	去
simp. #(起去)		起	去

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khí--khì / khí--khìr / khí--ì / khí--ìr / khí--khù / khí--lih / --khee

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí--khì
    • Tâi-lô: khí--khì
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí--khìr
    • Tâi-lô: khí--khìr
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí--ì
    • Tâi-lô: khí--ì
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí--ìr
    • Tâi-lô: khí--ìr
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí--khù
    • Tâi-lô: khí--khù
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí--lih
    • Tâi-lô: khí--lih
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: --khee
    • Tâi-lô: --khee

Note:

• 起 is in the citation tone and 去 is toneless when 起去 is at the end of a phrase;
• both 起 and 去 are toneless as a complement;
• both 起 and 去 undergo tone sandhi when the 起去 is not at the end of a phrase;
• khee - contraction.

Verb

起去

1. (Hokkien) to go up
2. (Hokkien) used after a verb to indicate motion from nearby to further away

Synonyms

• 上去 (shàngqù)