啟 — Chinese character
啟
qǐ
to open; to begin, to commence; to explain
- Pinyin
- qǐ
- Radical
- 66 ⽁ (Rap)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 启 攵
- Formation
- ideographic — To knock 攵 on a door 启; 启 also provides the pronunciation
- Simplified
- 启
啟 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 3 · Mencius 7
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.