想起 (xiǎng qǐ): meaning and stroke order

想起 in our stories

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• 近一千年过去了，很多中国人在遇到挫折的时候，还是会想起那个在雨中拄着竹杖慢慢走的人：也无风雨也无晴。

  jìn yìqiān nián guòqu le hěn duō Zhōngguó rén zài yùdào cuòzhé de shíhou háishi huì xiǎngqǐ nàge zài yǔ zhōng zhǔ zhe zhúzhàng mànmàn zǒu de rén yě wú fēngyǔ yě wú qíng

  Nearly a thousand years later, when many Chinese people meet setbacks, they still think of the man walking slowly through the rain on his bamboo staff: neither wind and rain nor sunshine.

  From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9

• 他想起李白的诗：黄河三尺鲤，本在孟津居；点额不成龙，归来伴凡鱼。连李白这样的人，也把自己比作一条没有跳过龙门的鱼。

  tā xiǎngqǐ Lǐ Bái de shī Huáng Hé sān chǐ lǐ běn zài Mèngjīn jū diǎn é bù chéng lóng guīlái bàn fán yú lián Lǐ Bái zhèyàng de rén yě bǎ zìjǐ bǐzuò yì tiáo méiyǒu tiào guò Lóngmén de yú

  He recalled lines by Li Bai: "A three-foot carp of the Yellow River once lived at Mengjin; its forehead marked, it did not become a dragon, and came home to swim with common fish." Even a man like Li Bai had compared himself to a carp that failed to leap the gate.

  From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9