U+8D77 "起" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+8D77 "起" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental Chinese character that carries the core meaning of "to rise," "to start," or "to raise," often appearing in words like 起来 (qǐlái, "to get up") and 开始 (kāishǐ, "to begin"). Structurally, it combines the radical 走 (zǒu, meaning "to walk" or "run") on the left, which indicates motion, with the phonetic component 己 (jǐ) on the right, suggesting its pronunciation in Mandarin as "qǐ." This character is widely used in modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean to denote initiation, emergence, or upward movement, and it is also found in historical texts and idioms, such as 起死回生 (qǐ sǐ huí shēng, "to bring someone back from the dead"). Its inclusion in the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs block ensures consistent digital representation across platforms for approximately 1.4 billion speakers globally.