启
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to open; to start; to initiate; to enlighten or awaken; to state; to inform
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Dict coverage rank #1,454 U+542F
How 启 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A door 户 being opened 口
How to remember it
enlighten · Heisig RSH #2152
户 door + 口 mouth
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 启
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 重新启动 | chóng xīn qǐ dòng | to reboot; to restart |
| 启德机场 | Qǐ dé Jī chǎng | Kai Tak Airport, international airport of Hong Kong from 1925 to 1998 |
| 启动子 | qǐ dòng zi | promoter |
| 启动区 | qǐ dòng qū | boot sector (computing) |
| 启发法 | qǐ fā fǎ | heuristic method; heuristics |
| 启蒙主义 | Qǐ méng zhǔ yì | Enlightenment (philosophy) |
| 启东市 | Qǐ dōng Shì | Qidong, a county-level city in Nantong City 南通市[Nan2 tong1 Shi4], Jiangsu |
| 明天启 | Míng Tiān qǐ | Tianqi Emperor, reign name of fifteenth Ming emperor Zhu Youxiao 朱由校[Zhu1 You2 xiao4] (160… |
| 启发式 | qǐ fā shì | heuristic |
| 启明星 | qǐ míng xīng | (astronomy) Venus |
| 启海话 | Qǐ hǎi huà | Qihai dialect, a Wu dialect spoken in Tongzhou, Haimen, and Qidong districts in southern J… |
| 承前启后 | chéng qián qǐ hòu | to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition; forming… |
| 冷启动 | lěng qǐ dòng | to cold start (a vehicle, a computer etc) |
| 难以启齿 | nán yǐ qǐ chǐ | to be too embarrassed to mention sth (idiom); to find it hard to speak about sth |
| 承先启后 | chéng xiān qǐ hòu | see 承前啟後|承前启后[cheng2 qian2 qi3 hou4] |
| 自启 | zì qǐ | (of a machine, app etc) to start on its own; to autostart |
| 启动 | qǐ dòng | to start (a machine); (fig.) to set in motion; to launch (an operation); to activate (a pl… |
| 启发 | qǐ fā | to enlighten; to explain (a text etc); to stimulate (a mental attitude); enlightenment; re… |
| 启事 | qǐ shì | announcement (written, on billboard, letter, newspaper or website); to post information; a… |
| 开启 | kāi qǐ | to start; to begin; to initiate (an era, process, journey etc); (computing) to enable (a f… |