想起

想⫽起 (verb-complement)

1. (transitive) to remember; to recall; to think of

   我想不起他的名字。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Wǒ xiǎng bù qǐ tā de míngzi. [Pinyin]

   I can't recall his name.

   我想起你，如何大的痛都會變小。 [MSC, trad.]
   我想起你，如何大的痛都会变小。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ xiǎngqǐ nǐ, rúhé dà de tòng dōu huì biàn xiǎo. [Pinyin]

   When I think of you, no matter how big the pain is, it still becomes small.

   • 我在蒙自住過五個月，我的家也在那裡住過兩個月。我現在常常想起這個地方，特別是在人事繁忙的時候。蒙自小得好，人少得好。 [MSC, trad.]
     我在蒙自住过五个月，我的家也在那里住过两个月。我现在常常想起这个地方，特别是在人事繁忙的时候。蒙自小得好，人少得好。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: (Can we date this quote?), Zhu Ziqing, 《蒙自雜記》

     Wǒ zài Méngzì zhù guò wǔ ge yuè, wǒ de jiā yě zài nàlǐ zhù guò liǎng ge yuè. Wǒ xiànzài chángcháng xiǎngqǐ zhè ge dìfang, tèbié shì zài rénshì fánmáng de shíhou. Méngzì xiǎo de hǎo, rén shǎo de hǎo. [Pinyin]

     I lived in Mengzi for five months, and my family two months. I often think of the place now, especially when my social life is busy. Mengzi is good because it's small and sparsely populated.

/sauki/ → /sɔːki/ → /soːki/

From Middle Chinese compound 想起 (sjang^X kʰɨ^X, literally “to think + to rise, to stand up”). Compare modern Mandarin reading xiǎngqǐ.

• (Tokyo) そーき [sóꜜòkì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [so̞ːkʲi]

想(そう)起(き) • (sōki) ^{←さうき (sauki)?}

1. a recollection

想(そう)起(き)する • (sōki suru) ^{←さうき (sauki)?}suru (stem 想(そう)起(き)し (sōki shi), past 想(そう)起(き)した (sōki shita))

1. to recall, to remember

• “想起”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026