启
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to open; to start; to initiate; to enlighten or awaken; to state; to inform
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 口 +4
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 啓
- Common rank
- #1,454
- Unicode
- U+542F
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Formation & memory
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Words with 启
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 重新启动 | to reboot; to restart | |
| 启德机场 | Kai Tak Airport, international airport of Hong Kong from 1925 to 1998 | |
| 启动子 | promoter | |
| 启动区 | boot sector (computing) | |
| 启发法 | heuristic method; heuristics | |
| 启蒙主义 | Enlightenment (philosophy) | |
| 启东市 | Qidong, a county-level city in Nantong City 南通市[Nan2 tong1 Shi4], Jiangsu | |
| 明天启 | Tianqi Emperor, reign name of fifteenth Ming emperor Zhu Youxiao 朱由校[Zhu1 You2 xiao4] (160… | |
| 启发式 | heuristic | |
| 启明星 | (astronomy) Venus | |
| 启海话 | Qihai dialect, a Wu dialect spoken in Tongzhou, Haimen, and Qidong districts in southern J… | |
| 承前启后 | to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition; forming… | |
| 冷启动 | to cold start (a vehicle, a computer etc) | |
| 难以启齿 | to be too embarrassed to mention sth (idiom); to find it hard to speak about sth | |
| 承先启后 | see 承前啟後|承前启后[cheng2 qian2 qi3 hou4] | |
| 自启 | (of a machine, app etc) to start on its own; to autostart | |
| 启动 | to start (a machine); (fig.) to set in motion; to launch (an operation); to activate (a pl… | |
| 启发 | to enlighten; to explain (a text etc); to stimulate (a mental attitude); enlightenment; re… | |
| 启事 | announcement (written, on billboard, letter, newspaper or website); to post information; a… | |
| 开启 | to start; to begin; to initiate (an era, process, journey etc); (computing) to enable (a f… |