U+5553 "啓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
啓
U+5553 "啓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, commonly used in Traditional Chinese and Japanese script. It is composed of the radical for "door" or "mouth" and a phonetic component, and its primary meanings include "to open," "to begin," "to enlighten," or "to inform." In historical and modern contexts, this character appears in words and phrases related to initiating communication, such as "啓示" (revelation) or "啓発" (enlightenment), and it is also sometimes encountered in personal names and formal documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5553 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 啓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 啓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x95 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5553 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005553 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5553 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 21424F |
| kCNS1986 | E-3462 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-3462 |
| kCangjie | IKR |
| kCantonese | kai2 |
| kCihaiT | 280.301 |
| kCowles | 1901 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0416.160 |
| kDefinition | open; begin, commence; explain |
| kEACC | 21424F |
| kFanqie | 康禮 |
| kFenn | 728D |
| kFennIndex | 40.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3860.4 |
| kGB1 | 3884 |
| kHangul | 계:0E |
| kHanYu | 10646.120 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10646.120:qǐ |
| kIICore | AJKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0416.160 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10646.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0195.170 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4674 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-FBA3 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-373C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D3B9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4C76 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-3462 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8A72 |
| kJapanese | ケイ ひらく もうす |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | HIRAKU MOUSU |
| kJapaneseOn | KEI |
| kJis0 | 2328 |
| kKangXi | 0195.170 |
| kKarlgren | 336 |
| kKorean | KYEY |
| kLau | 1649 |
| kMandarin | qǐ |
| kMatthews | 542 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1012 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008392 MJ008392:E0102 MJ008391:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 03820:E0103 |
| kNelson | 0940 |
| kPhonetic | 563 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1810+30.3.8 V+13738+30.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.8 |
| kSBGY | 269.42 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+555F<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "启" U+542F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 107.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qǐ粵kai2 |
| kSpoofingVariant | U+555F |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0796 |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKP |
| kXerox | 243:374 |
| kXHC1983 | 0898.132:qǐ |