豎syu6起hei2

English

1. to erect (a tent etc)
2. to prick up
3. to prick up (one's ears)
4. to raise (one's eyebrows)
5. to stick up (one's thumb)
6. to turn up (one's collar)
7. (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 垂直舉起

Examples

• 豎起耳仔（即係專心噉聽）

  to listen concentratedly; literally, to prick up one's ears

• 佢豎起耳仔聽電台八卦節目。

  He listens to the radio gossip program intently.

• 佢見勢色唔對，立即豎起枝白旗投降。

  He pricked the white flag up immediately when he found the situation was all messed up.

• 豎起你的耳朵。

  Prick up your ears.

  Tatoeba · DaoSeng CC BY

• 我豎起了耳朵聽。

  I pricked up my ears.

  Tatoeba · Martha CC BY

• 他開始說他的秘密的時候，我們都豎起了耳朵來聽。

  We were all ears when he started to tell us his secret.

  Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY