起重机 (起重機)
qǐ zhòng jī
Pinyin

Definition

起重机 (起重機)
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qǐ zhòng jī
  1. crane

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
想起
xiǎng qǐ
  1. 1 to recall
  2. 2 to think of
  3. 3 to call to mind
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

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)
一言为重
yī yán wéi zhòng
  1. 1 each word carries weight
  2. 2 a promise must be kept (idiom)
不知轻重
bù zhī qīng zhòng
  1. 1 lit. not knowing what's important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things
  2. 2 naive
  3. 3 doesn't know who's who
  4. 4 no sense of priorities
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)

Sample Sentences

嗯。古埃及人可真厉害！最大的金字塔有140多米高，用了200多万块巨石，那时候没有起重机，你说，那些巨石是怎么弄上去的？
ng4 。gǔ āijí rén kě zhēn lìhai ！zuìdà de jīnzìtǎ yǒu yībǎi sìshí duō mǐ gāo ，yòng le èrbǎi duōwàn kuài jùshí ，nà shíhou méiyǒu qǐzhòngjī ，nǐ shuō ，nàxiē jùshí shì zěnme nòng shàngqu de ？
Hmm. The ancient Egyptians were really awesome! The tallest pyramid is 140 meters, and used 2 million huge pieces of stone. At that time there were no cranes. How do you think they got those stones up there?
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不是起重机，是挖掘机。
bùshì qǐzhòngjī ，shì wājuéjī 。
It's not a crane, it's an excavator.
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是啊！那个大机器是起重机吗？
shì a ！nà ge dà jīqì shì qǐzhòngjī ma ？
Exactly! That big machine is a crane, right?
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