起rise (component)
Pinyin: qǐ
Terms and marksA component of compound symbols: the left finger sounds a note as it leaves the string, as in dai qi and qia qi.
How it is played
In jianzipu, qi (“rise”) is mostly a component combined with another character into one action: dai qi and qia qi (carved 搯起) are a left finger leaving the string after a stopped pluck and sounding it as it goes, and tong qi belongs to the same family; fan qi means the harmonic passage begins here. The jianzi is written 己.
In the classical handbooks
起也。如帶起、搯起、同起、泛起之類。Gist: Qi: as in dai qi, qia qi, tong qi, fan qi and the like.