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U+5553, 啓
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5553

[U+5552]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5554]
See also: and

Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

(radical 30 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹大口 (HKR) or 戈大口 (IKR) or X竹大口 (XHKR), composition𢼄)

  1. open
  2. begin, commence
  3. explain

References

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

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is a variant form of .)

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

Readings

Proper noun

(hiragana けい, romaji Kei)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(khải, kiết)

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