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引起

HSK 4#1216 by frequencyradical 弓

yǐn qǐ["v"]

to give rise to; to lead to; to cause; to arouse

Examples

如何引起女人的渴望?

How to arouse a woman's desire?

咖啡不能引起我的兴趣。

Coffee does not arouse my interest.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.