起更 qǐgēng to sound the first night watch Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 起更 qǐ//gēng to sound the first night watch (literary) to begin sounding the night watches, specifically the first watch occurring around 7:00 p.m. the first night watch the time of the first of the five night watches, approximately 7:00 p.m. Frequency Written text 0.508 per million Cross-References Synonym 初更 chūgēng Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
起更 qǐ//gēng to sound the first night watch (literary) to begin sounding the night watches, specifically the first watch occurring around 7:00 p.m. the first night watch the time of the first of the five night watches, approximately 7:00 p.m. Frequency Written text 0.508 per million Cross-References Synonym 初更 chūgēng Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
