啟

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

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

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
    • 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 (Taipei): /kʰe⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰe⁵³/

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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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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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