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


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