起程
qǐchéng
to set out; to start a journey
Characters in this word
程 chéng
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 禾 — cereal, grain, rice
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 代表团原定清晨起程，却因机场关闭被迫推迟一天。 Dàibiǎotuán yuándìng qīngchén qǐchéng, què yīn jīchǎng guānbì bèipò tuīchí yì tiān. The delegation had originally been scheduled to set out early in the morning, but was forced to postpone by one day because the airport closed.
- 天一亮，他们就起程去山里看望奶奶。 Tiān yí liàng, tāmen jiù qǐchéng qù shān lǐ kànwàng nǎinai. At daybreak they set out for the mountains to visit grandma.
- 行李已经收拾好，只等明天起程。 Xíngli yǐjīng shōushi hǎo, zhǐ děng míngtiān qǐchéng. The luggage is already packed; we are only waiting for tomorrow's departure.
Related words
- 对不起 duìbuqǐ sorry, excuse me
- 起 qǐ to rise, to get up
- 起床 qǐchuáng to get up (out of bed)
- 起来 qǐlai to get up, to stand up; to start (doing)
- 一起 yìqǐ together
- 起飞 qǐfēi to take off
- 想起 xiǎngqǐ to remember; to recall
- 看起来 kànqǐlai to look; to seem
- 看不起 kànbuqǐ to look down on
- 了不起 liǎobuqǐ amazing
- 引起 yǐnqǐ to cause
- 起到 qǐdào to play a role