启

See also: 啓 and 啟

Translingual

Traditional	啟
Simplified	启
Japanese	啓
Korean	啓

Han character

启 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈尸口 (ISR), composition ⿸户口(GH) or ⿸戶口(TJK))

Derived characters

• 啟, 𠶶, 𬚫, 𨐙, 𨌋, 𢩙, 𢩝, 𣚩, 𨐳

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 178, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3357
• Dae Jaweon: page 396, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 594, character 10
• Unihan data for U+542F

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (啓) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
啓	*kʰeːʔ
啟	*kʰeːʔ
棨	*kʰeːʔ
綮	*kʰeːʔ
晵	*kʰeːʔ, *kʰens
闙	*kʰeːʔ
启	*kʰeːʔ

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 启 – see 啟 (“to open; to enlighten; to educate; to inspire; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 啟).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.