Depicts a hand (又) opening a door (户). The 又 (hand) component was later reanalyzed as meaning component 攴. Original form of 啟.
攴 Meaning component
Originally depicts a hand. Later reanalyzed as 攴.
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
Modernto open (ancient variant of 啟)