起来 qǐlái▶ levantarse

Stroke order

起来 is written in 17 strokes across 2 characters.

• 起 — 10 strokes
• 来 — 7 strokes

Example sentences

• 我每天六点起来。Wǒ měitiān liù diǎn qǐlái.I get up at six every day.
• 天气热起来了。Tiānqì rè qǐlái le.The weather has started to get hot.

Related words

• 后来más tarde
• 起飞despegar; quitarse
• 一起juntos
• 从来Siempre
• 原来Original
• 将来futuro

起来 is pronounced qǐlái and means “levantarse”. You will meet it in HSK 3, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 起来 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.