Memory phrase for the character: 启

启

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Meaning

to open, to start, to initiate, to awaken

Pronunciation

qǐ

Explanation

Left: sliding door 戸 (sliding door with upper rail), right: mouth 口 (here: entrance)

Mnemonic


 
The sliding door is the entrance, where it (= the inner) starts and opens.

Radicals

戶 doorImage of a sliding door 尸 in an upper guidance rail.
口 mouth, openingThis is a small square. If it is bigger: 囗, it is an enclosure.




 Vocabulary

梁启超 Liáng Qǐ chāo  Liang Qichao (1873-1929), influential journalist and a leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
启发 qǐ fā  to enlighten; to explain and arouse interest; to inspire; inspiration; heuristic (attributively); to teach
 


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