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啟

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

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

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

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

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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