- to rise
 - to raise
 - to get up
 - to set out
 - to start
 - to appear
 - to launch
 - to initiate (action)
 - to draft
 - to establish
 - to get (from a depot or counter)
 - verb suffix, to start
 - starting from (a time, place, price etc)
 - classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
 - classifier for groups: batch, group
 
Resources
- Wiktionary: 起
 - MDBG: 起
 - Examples with 起 on Tatoeba