to give a start / to startle (an animal etc)
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to rise high / to spring up
to summon one's (courage, faith etc) / to puff up (one's cheeks etc) / to bulge / to swell out
to summon one's courage
variant of 捲起|卷起[]
Kia (Motors)
variant of 啟運|启运[]
(dialect) to step aside / Get out of the way!
Gongsun Qi (-258 BC), famous general of Qin 秦國|秦国, the victor at 長平|长平 in 260 BC / same as Bai Qi 白起
Nanchang Uprising, 1st August 1927, the beginning of military revolt by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War
Wu Qi (440-381 BC), military leader and politician of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), author of Wuzi 吳子|吴子[], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[]
see 吳起縣|吴起县[]
Wuqi, a county in Yan'an City 延安市[], Shaanxi
Dazexiang Uprising, another name for 陳勝吳廣起義|陈胜吴广起义[]
Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864), a massive rebellion in southern China against the Qing Dynasty, led by Hong Xiuquan 洪秀全[], who sought to establish the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 太平天國|太平天国[], resulting in one of the deadliest conflicts in history with millions of casualties
East Pacific Rise (a mid-oceanic ridge stretching from California to Antarctica)
Wuchang Uprising of October 10th, 1911, which led to Sun Yat-sen's Xinhai Revolution and the fall of the Qing dynasty
Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"
Bai Qi (-258 BC), famous general of Qin 秦國|秦国, the victor at 長平|长平 in 260 BC / same as 公孫起|公孙起
Autumn Harvest Uprising (1927), insurrection in Hunan and Jiangxi provinces led by Mao Zedong
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Jintian Uprising
variant of 卯起來|卯起来[]
Qian Qi (c. 710-780), Tang Dynasty poet
Chen Sheng Wu Guang Uprising (209 BC), near the end of the Qin dynasty
Huang Chao peasant uprising 875-884 in late Tang, led by Huang Chao
Yellow Turbans Peasant Uprising at the end of later Han (from 184)
Huanghuagang uprising of 23rd April 1911 in Guangzhou, one a long series of unsuccessful uprisings of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary party
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