启 (啟)

  1. verb to open
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CCD '启' 1; CC-CEDICT '啟'; FE '啟' 1; Guoyu '啟' v 1; Kroll 2015 '啟' 1, p. 356; Unihan '啟')
  2. verb to open; to begin /to commence; to explain
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: 啔 is an archaic variant of variant of 启
  3. verb to begin; to commence; to start
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CCD '启' 3; CC-CEDICT '啟'; FE '啟' 2; Guoyu '啟' v 3; Kroll 2015 '啟' 3, p. 357; Mathews 1931 '啟', p. 71; Unihan '啟')
  4. verb to explain; to teach
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CCD '启' 2; CC-CEDICT '啟'; FE '啟' 3; Guoyu '啟' v 2; Kroll 2015 '啟' 3, p. 357; Mathews 1931 '啟', p. 71)
  5. verb to state; to inform
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CCD '启' 4; CC-CEDICT '啟'; FE '啟' 4; Guoyu '啟' v 4)
  6. noun a letter; a letter to a superior
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CCD '启' 5; FE '啟' 5; Guoyu '啟' n 1; Kroll 2015 '啟' 4, p. 357)
  7. proper noun Qi
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (CCD '启' 6; CC-CEDICT '啟'; Guoyu '啟' n 3)
  8. noun a two week period at the start of spring and fall
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '啟' 2a, p. 357)
  9. noun a thank you letter
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '啟' 4a, p. 357)
  10. verb to squat [with bent knees]
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '啟' 5, p. 357)
  11. noun [army formation] left flank
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '啟' 6, p. 357)
  12. noun to establish; to develop [land]
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '啟' v 5)

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