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to start (a machine) / (fig.) to set in motion / to launch (an operation) / to activate (a plan)
HSK 5
announcement (written, on billboard, letter, newspaper or website) / to post information / a notice
HSK 5
to start; to begin; to initiate (an era, process, journey etc) / (computing) to enable (a feature) / (of a system or device) to start operating automatically; to self-initiate / to open (sth that has been sealed)
HSK 7-9
to reveal / to enlighten / enlightenment / revelation / illumination / moral (of a story etc) / lesson
HSK 7-9
to edify / enlightenment
HSK 7-9
to enlighten / to explain (a text etc) / to stimulate (a mental attitude) / enlightenment / revelation / motivation
HSK 5
(astronomy) Venus
Kai Tak Airport, international airport of Hong Kong from 1925 to 1998
to start using / (computing) to enable (a feature)
the Revelation of St John the divine / the Apocalypse
Qidong, a county-level city in Nantong City 南通市, Jiangsu
heuristic method / heuristics
to instruct the young / to initiate / to awake sb from ignorance / to free sb from prejudice or superstition / primer / enlightened / the Enlightenment / Western learning from the late Qing dynasty
HSK 7-9
to cold start (a vehicle, a computer etc)
to be too embarrassed to mention sth (idiom) / to find it hard to speak about sth
to ship (goods)
boot sector (computing)
Classical Chinese name for planet Venus in the east before dawn
to submit a report to the king / to talk to the king
(of a ship) to set sail; (of an airplane) to take off
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *启* | 启* | *启
Qi son of Yu the Great , reported founder of the Xia Dynasty 夏朝 (c. 2070-c. 1600 BC)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *启* | 启* | *启
to open / to start / to initiate / to enlighten or awaken / to state / to inform
Xu Guangqi (1562-1633), agricultural scientist, astronomer, and mathematician in the Ming dynasty
heuristic
Dear Sirs / To Whom It May Concern
to open one's mouth / to start talking
to reboot; to restart
promoter
Liang Qichao (1873-1929), influential journalist and a leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
Qihai dialect, a Wu dialect spoken in Tongzhou, Haimen, and Qidong districts in southern Jiangsu province, and on Chongming Island in Shanghai
to set out on a journey
Introitus (section of Catholic mass)
Enlightenment (philosophy)
to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
Tianqi Emperor, reign name of fifteenth Ming emperor Zhu Youxiao 朱由校 (1605-1627), reigned 1620-1627, temple name 明熹宗
a student shall not be enlightened until he has tried hard by himself (idiom)
revelator
to respectfully inform (used at the beginning or end of letters)
to restart (a machine etc); to reactivate (a postponed project etc)
to open sth that has been sealed
(of a machine, app etc) to start on its own; to autostart
respectful closing to a letter
to be too shy to speak one's mind (idiom)
deep suffering can lead to enlightenment (idiom) / storms make oaks take deeper root
obituary (archaic term)
variant of 啟蒙|启蒙 / to instruct the young
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *启* | 启* | *启
variant of 啟|启
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *启* | 启* | *启
variant of 啟|启
Waking from Hibernation / old variant of 驚蟄|惊蛰, Insects Wake, 3rd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 6th-20th March


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