啟

See also: 啓 and 启

Translingual

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trad.		啟
simp.		启

Han character

啟 (radical 66 攴+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹口人大 (HROK), four-corner 3860₄, composition ⿰启攵)

1. open
2. begin, commence
3. explain

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 196, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3821
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1463, character 8
• Unihan data for U+555F

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Cantonese

Hanzi

啟 (simplified 启, Jyutping kai2, Yale kai2)

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Japanese

Kanji

啟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: けい (kei)
• Kun: ひらく (hiraku), もうす (mousu)

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Korean

Hanja

啟 (gye) (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune-Reischauer kye)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

啟 (simplified 启, Pinyin qǐ (qi3), Wade-Giles ch'i³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

啟 (khải, khơi, khui)

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