勾起
gōu qǐ
Pinyin

Definition

勾起
 - 
gōu qǐ
  1. to evoke
  2. to induce
  3. to call to mind
  4. to pick up with a hook

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

一起
yī qǐ
  1. 1 in the same place
  2. 2 together
  3. 3 with
  4. 4 altogether (in total)
在一起
zài yī qǐ
  1. 1 together
发起
fā qǐ
  1. 1 to originate
  2. 2 to initiate
  3. 3 to launch (an attack, an initiative etc)
  4. 4 to start
  5. 5 to propose sth (for the first time)
起
qǐ
  1. 1 to rise
  2. 2 to raise
  3. 3 to get up
  4. 4 to set out
  5. 5 to start
  6. 6 to appear
  7. 7 to launch
  8. 8 to initiate (action)
  9. 9 to draft
  10. 10 to establish
  11. 11 to get (from a depot or counter)
  12. 12 verb suffix, to start
  13. 13 starting from (a time, place, price etc)
  14. 14 classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
  15. 15 classifier for groups: batch, group
起来
qǐ lai
  1. 1 to stand up
  2. 2 to get up
  3. 3 also pr. [qǐ lái]

Idioms (20)

一波未平，一波又起
yī bō wèi píng , yī bō yòu qǐ
  1. 1 before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved
  2. 2 many twists and turns to a story
  3. 3 one thing after another
一病不起
yī bìng bù qǐ
  1. 1 to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)
事不关己，高高挂起
shì bù guān jǐ , gāo gāo guà qǐ
  1. 1 to feel unconcerned and let matters rest (idiom)
任凭风浪起，稳坐钓鱼台
rèn píng fēng làng qǐ , wěn zuò diào yú tái
  1. 1 lit. sitting at ease in a fishing boat despite wind and storm (idiom); to stay calm during tense situation
  2. 2 a cool head in a crisis
勤俭起家
qín jiǎn qǐ jiā
  1. 1 to rise up by thrift and hard work (idiom)

Sample Sentences

不过人有时根本不需要真实的记忆，大脑就会自己制造一种熟悉的感觉，或者是对梦的记忆。当事情真正发生时，觉得好象在哪里经历过。其实是这件事勾起了自己对梦的回忆。
bùguò rén yǒushí gēnběn bù xūyào zhēnshí de jìyì ，dànǎo jiù huì zìjǐ zhìzào yī zhǒng shúxī de gǎnjué ，huòzhě shì duì mèng de jìyì 。dāng shìqing zhēnzhèng fāshēng shí ，juéde hǎoxiàng zài nǎli jīnglì guò 。qíshí shì zhè jiàn shì gōuqǐ le zìjǐ duì mèng de huíyì 。
But some people don't need any kind of real memory. Their mind will just come up with a feeling of familiarity on its own, or they have some memory of a dream. When the thing actually happens, they feel like they've encountered it somewhere. Actually, the incident just evoked their memory of their own dream.
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