起舞

Chinese

		to rise; to raise; to get up	to dance; to wield; to brandish
trad. (起舞)		起	舞
simp. #(起舞)		起	舞

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qǐwǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˇ ㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hei² mou⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khí-bú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qǐwǔ [Phonetic: qíwǔ]
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˇ ㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cǐwǔ
    • Wade–Giles: chʻi³-wu³
    • Yale: chǐ-wǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiiwuu
    • Palladius: циу (ciu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻³⁵ u²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hei² mou⁵
    • Yale: héi móuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hei² mou⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: héi² mou⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hei̯³⁵ mou̯¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí-bú
    • Tâi-lô: khí-bú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qy'buo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bu⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bu⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bu⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bu⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bu⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: khiX mjuX

Rime
Character	起	舞
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	之 (19)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	墟里切	文甫切
Baxter	khiX	mjuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰɨX/	/mɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰɨX/	/mioX/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰieX/	/mioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰɨX/	/muə̆X/
Li Rong	/kʰiəX/	/mioX/
Wang Li	/kʰĭəX/	/mĭuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰiX/	/mi̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qǐ	wǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hei2	mou5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.qʰ(r)əʔ  k.m(r)aʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰɯʔ  maʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	起	舞
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qǐ	wǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ khiX ›	‹ mjuX ›
Old Chinese	/*C.qʰ(r)əʔ/	/*k.m(r)aʔ/
English	rise (v.)	dance (v.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	起	舞
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	12011	13126
Phonetic component	巳	無
Rime group	之	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	起	武
Old Chinese	/*kʰɯʔ/	/*maʔ/
Notes	說文巳聲非己聲

Verb

起舞

1. to begin dancing (moving rhythmically)

Synonyms

• 圍囊／围囊 (Dungan)
• 比舞 (bi³ wu³) (Sichuanese)
• 舞 (wǔ) (literary, or in compounds)
• 舞蹈 (wǔdǎo)
• 跳舞 (tiàowǔ)