挑起

挑
起
to provoke / to stir up / to incite

Characters and words in 挑起

挑
tia̅o = ti + ao1
to carry on a shoulder pole / to choose / to pick / to nitpick
挑 = 兆 + 扌 : In front of the aorta (ao1) Mother Teresa (ti) is carrying two vultures (兆) on a toy claw (扌) used as shoulder stick (挑).
挑
tiǎo = ti + ao3
to raise / to dig up / to poke / to prick / to incite / to stir up
挑 = 兆 + 扌 : Mother Teresa (ti) is lying motionless inside of the aorta (ao3). The vultures (兆) want to know if she's already dead, so they poke (挑) her with a toy claw (扌).
起
qǐ = qi + Ø3
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
起 = 己 + 走 : The Queen of Hearts is bored in the space station and plays a game involving a nordic walking pole and butcher's hooks. She uses the nordic walking pole to accelerate the hooks and fires them off once they have enough momentum.

Words with 挑起

挑起 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 挑起

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