起

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

self / oneself / sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / sixth in order / letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / hexa

6th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake / ancient Chinese compass point: 150°

to walk / to go / to run / to move (of vehicle) / to visit / to leave / to go away / to die (euph.) / from / through / away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[che4 zou3]) / to change (shape, form, meaning)

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

unremarkable / nothing out of the ordinary

lit. to return to office after living as a hermit on Mount Dongshan (idiom); fig. to make a comeback

to jump up suddenly / to bound up / to rise up in one bound

to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)

towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom) / great oaks from little acorns grow

the first step is the hardest (idiom)

(of a group of people) to rush into action

before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved / many twists and turns to a story / one thing after another

It's a long and intricate story, I hardly know where to start.

erhua variant of 不起眼[bu4 qi3 yan3]

East Pacific Rise (a mid-oceanic ridge stretching from California to Antarctica)