qǐ
to open
Depicts a hand (又) opening a door (户). The 又 (hand) component was later reanalyzed as meaning component 攴. Original form of 啟.
Components
Evolution
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
ModernMiscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+22EFB |
Shuowen | “啟，教也。从攴，启聲。《論語》曰：‘不憤不啟。’” |
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