起诉
qǐsù
to sue; to prosecute; to bring legal action
Characters in this word
诉 sù
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 斥 to scold, to upbraid
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 公司决定起诉供应商，因为对方长期隐瞒产品缺陷。 Gōngsī juédìng qǐsù gōngyìngshāng, yīnwèi duìfāng chángqī yǐnmán chǎnpǐn quēxiàn. The company decided to sue the supplier because the other side had long concealed product defects.
- 如果协商无效，我们可以起诉他们。 Rúguǒ xiéshāng wúxiào, wǒmen kěyǐ qǐsù tāmen. If negotiation fails, we can sue them.
- 他因债务纠纷被邻居起诉到法院。 Tā yīn zhàiwù jiūfěn bèi línjū qǐsù dào fǎyuàn. Because of a debt dispute, he was taken to court by his neighbor.
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