啟

啟 U+555F, 啟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-555F ← 啞 [U+555E] CJK Unified Ideographs 啠 → [U+5560]

See also: 啓 and 启

Translingual

Traditional	啟
Shinjitai	啓
Simplified	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

Usage notes

This character form is not found in the Kangxi dictionary and is not used in Japan or Korea (啓 is used instead). However, it is the preferred form in Hong Kong and Taiwan (traditional Chinese script).

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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Chinese

trad.		啟/啓
simp.		启

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qǐ (qi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kai²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): khí
• Min Nan (POJ): khé

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˇ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chii
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kai²
    • Yale: kái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: kei²
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɐi̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khí
    • Hakka Romanization System: ki`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ki³
    • IPA: /kʰi³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khé
    • Tâi-lô: khé
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qea
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰe⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰe⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰe⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰe⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰe⁴¹/

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• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰeːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	啟
Reading #	1/1
No.	10129
Phonetic component	啓
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	啓
Old Chinese	/*kʰeːʔ/
Notes	啓通用異體見漢簡

Definitions

啟

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Compounds

• 啟事／启事 (qǐshì)
• 啟動／启动 (qǐdòng)
• 啟用／启用 (qǐyòng)

• 啟發／启发 (qǐfā)
• 啟示／启示 (qǐshì)
• 啟程／启程 (qǐchéng)

• 啟航／启航
• 啟蒙／启蒙 (qǐméng)
• 開啟／开启 (kāiqǐ)

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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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Vietnamese

Han character

啟 (khải, khơi, khui)

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