啓

See also: 启 and 啟
啓 U+5553, 啓
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5553
← 啒
[U+5552] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 啔 →
[U+5554]
啓 U+2F843, 啓
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F843
← 唐
[U+2F842] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 啣 →
[U+2F844]

Translingual
Traditional 啟
Simplified 启
Japanese 啓
Korean 啓

Alternative forms
  • Note that regional variations exist for the upper left component of this character (戸 in Japan, 戶 in Taiwan, Korea, 户 in China, Hong Kong and Vietnam). In the Kangxi dictionary, the component is written 戸 similar to the Japanese form.
  • An alternative form 啟 (U+555F) exists which is the preferred form used in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Han character

啓 (radical 30, 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹大口 (HKR) or 戈大口 (IKR) or X竹大口 (XHKR), composition ⿱⿰戸攵口(J) or ⿱⿰戶攵口(TK) or ⿱⿰户攵口(GHV or U+2F843))

Derived characters
  • 𢴖, 㬖, 𭿚, 𦄊

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

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

Definitions
For pronunciation and definitions of 啓 – see 啟 (“to open; to enlighten; to educate; to inspire; etc.”).
(This character, 啓, is a variant form of 啟.)

Japanese

Kanji
啓

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Proper noun

啓 (hiragana けい, rōmaji Kei)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

啓 • (gye) (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune–Reischauer kye)

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Vietnamese

Han character

啓 (khải)

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