發起 Simplified: 发起 On the HSK 6 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. fāqǐ ㄈㄚ ㄑㄧˇ to originate to initiate to launch (an attack, an initiative etc) to start to propose sth (for the first time) Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT