| 公孙起 |
Gōng sūn Qǐ |
Gongsun Qi (-258 BC), famous general of Qin 秦国, the victor at 长平 in 260 BC / same as Bai Qi 白起 |
| 公 |
gōng |
public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal) |
| 公孙 |
Gōng sūn |
two-character surname Gongsun |
| 孙 |
Sūn |
surname Sun |
| 孙 |
sūn |
grandson / descendant |
| 起 |
qǐ |
to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group |