Chinese symbol for “evoke”
勾起
gōu qǐ
to evoke; to induce; to call to mind; to pick up with a hook
The closest CC-CEDICT match for evoke is 勾起 (gōu qǐ), defined as: to evoke; to induce; to call to mind; to pick up with a hook.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “evoke”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 引发 (引發) | yǐn fā | to lead to; to trigger |
| 激起 | jī qǐ | to arouse; to evoke |
| 唤起 (喚起) | huàn qǐ | to waken (to action); to rouse (the masses) |
| 勾出 | gōu chū | to delineate; to articulate |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 勾起.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 勾结 (勾結) | gōu jié | to collude with; to collaborate with |
| 勾引 | gōu yǐn | to seduce; to tempt |
| 勾当 (勾當) | gòu dàng | shady business |
| 勾勒 | gōu lè | to draw the outline of; to outline |
| 勾搭 | gōu da | to gang up; to fool around with |
| 起来 (起來) | qǐ lai | to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qi3lai2] |
| 一起 | yī qǐ | (in) the same place; together; in company (with) |
| 引起 | yǐn qǐ | to give rise to; to lead to; to cause; to arouse |
See also: Japanese symbol for “evoke”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.