启 (啟)

  1. verb to open
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CCD '启' 1; CC-CEDICT '啟'; FE '啟' 1; Guoyu '啟' v 1; Kroll 2015 '啟' 1, p. 356; Unihan '啟')
  2. verb to open; to begin /to commence; to explain
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: 啔 is an archaic variant of variant of 启
  3. verb to begin; to commence; to start
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CCD '启' 3; CC-CEDICT '啟'; FE '啟' 2; Guoyu '啟' v 3; Kroll 2015 '啟' 3, p. 357; Mathews 1931 '啟', p. 71; Unihan '啟')
  4. verb to explain; to teach
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CCD '启' 2; CC-CEDICT '啟'; FE '啟' 3; Guoyu '啟' v 2; Kroll 2015 '啟' 3, p. 357; Mathews 1931 '啟', p. 71)
  5. verb to state; to inform
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CCD '启' 4; CC-CEDICT '啟'; FE '啟' 4; Guoyu '啟' v 4)
  6. noun a letter; a letter to a superior
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CCD '启' 5; FE '啟' 5; Guoyu '啟' n 1; Kroll 2015 '啟' 4, p. 357)
  7. proper noun Qi
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (CCD '启' 6; CC-CEDICT '啟'; Guoyu '啟' n 3)
  8. noun a two week period at the start of spring and fall
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '啟' 2a, p. 357)
  9. noun a thank you letter
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '啟' 4a, p. 357)
  10. verb to squat [with bent knees]
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '啟' 5, p. 357)
  11. noun [army formation] left flank
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '啟' 6, p. 357)
  12. noun to establish; to develop [land]
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '啟' v 5)

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Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 10 Tan Jin Wenji 鐔津文集 — count: 36
  • Scroll 28 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 32 , has English translation
  • Scroll 5 Record of the Teaching and Practices of Siming (Siming Zunzhe Jiao Xing Lu) 四明尊者教行錄 — count: 31
  • Scroll 1 Monijiao Xia Bu Zan 摩尼教下部讚 — count: 31
  • Scroll 16 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 30 , has English translation
  • Scroll 3 Guo Qing Bai Lu 國清百錄 — count: 28
  • Scroll 19 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 27 , has English translation
  • Scroll 1 Shijia Pu 釋迦譜 — count: 27
  • Scroll 25 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 23 , has English translation
  • Scroll 21 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 21 , has English translation

Collocations

  • 启王 (啟王) 國人民復重啟王 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 3 — count: 26
  • 启白 (啟白) 我有意願今啟白 — Sutra on the Great Reliable Brahman (Da Jiangu Poluomen Jing) 大堅固婆羅門緣起經, Scroll 2 — count: 19
  • 启曰 (啟曰) 啟曰 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 14 — count: 12
  • 启言 (啟言) 啟言 — Beginning of the World (Qi Shi Jing) 起世經, Scroll 2 — count: 12
  • 启受 (啟受) 吾等悉當從其啟受 — Sutra of the Collection of the Six Perfections (Liu Du Ji Jing) 六度集經, Scroll 6 — count: 9
  • 启佛 (啟佛) 前啟佛請入 — Nirvāṇa Sūtra 般泥洹經, Scroll 2 — count: 8
  • 启请 (啟請) 我今當啟請 — Sutra on Śakra's Questions (Dishi Suo Wen Jing) 帝釋所問經, Scroll 1 — count: 8
  • 具启 (具啟) 具啟人尊 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 8
  • 往启 (往啟) 便往啟佛 — Jātaka stories (Sheng Jing) 生經, Scroll 1 — count: 6
  • 臣启 (臣啟) 藏臣啟言 — Beginning of the World (Qi Shi Jing) 起世經, Scroll 2 — count: 5