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竖起

shù qǐ

2-character word Traditional 豎起

What 竖起 means

1. to erect (a tent etc)
2. to prick up (one's ears)
3. to raise (one's eyebrows)
4. to stick up (one's thumb)
5. to turn up (one's collar)
6. (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)

The characters in 竖起

• 竖shùto erect; vertical; vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)
• 起qǐto rise; to raise; to get up

Example sentences

• 竖起你的耳朵。
  Prick up your ears.
• 我竖起了耳朵听。
  Wǒ shùqǐ le ěrduo tīng.
  I pricked up my ears.
• 他开始说他的秘密的时候，我们都竖起了耳朵来听。
  Tā kāishǐ shuō tā de mìmì de shíhou, wǒmen dōu shùqǐ le ěrduo lái tīng.
  We were all ears when he started to tell us his secret.

Words starting with 竖起

• 竖起耳朵shù qǐ ěr duoto prick up one's ears; to strain to hear sth
• 竖起大拇指shù qǐ dà mu zhǐto give a thumbs-up; to express one's approval