啓

See also: 启 and 啟

啓 U+2F843, 啓 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F843 ← 唐 [U+2F842] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 啣 → [U+2F844]

Translingual

Traditional	啟
Simplified	启
Japanese	啓
Korean	啓

Alternative forms

• Note that regional variations exist for the upper left component of this character (戸 in Japan, 戶 in Taiwan, Korea, 户 in China, Hong Kong and Vietnam). In the Kangxi dictionary, the component is written 戸 similar to the Japanese form.
• An alternative form 啟 (U+555F) exists which is the preferred form used in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Han character

啓 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹大口 (HKR) or 戈大口 (IKR) or 難竹大口 (XHKR), composition ⿱⿰戸攵口(J) or ⿱⿰戶攵口(TK) or ⿱⿰户攵口(GHV or U+2F843))

Derived characters

• 𢴖, 㬖, 𭿚, 𦄊

Related characters

• 啟 (Character used in Hong Kong and Taiwan)
• 启 (Simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 195, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3820
• Dae Jaweon: page 416, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 646, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5553

• Unihan data for U+2F843

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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 啓 – see 啟 (“to open; to enlighten; to educate; to inspire; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 啟).

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Japanese

Kanji

啓

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: けい (kei, Jōyō)
• Kun: ひらく (hiraku, 啓く); もうす (mōsu, 啓す)

Proper noun

啓(けい) • (Kei) 

1. a male given name

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Korean

Hanja

啓 • (gye) (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune–Reischauer kye)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 啓 (khải, kiết)

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