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Trad. 啟
- Qi son of Yu the Great 禹[Yu3], reported founder of the Xia Dynasty 夏朝[Xia4 Chao2] (c. 2070-c. 1600 BC)
Trad. 開啟
- to start; to begin; to initiate (an era, process, journey etc)
- (computing) to enable (a feature)
- (of a system or device) to start operating automatically; to self-initiate
- to open (sth that has been sealed)
Trad. 重啟
- to restart (a machine etc); to reactivate (a postponed project etc)
Trad. 啟事
- announcement (written, on billboard, letter, newspaper or website)
- to post information
- a notice
Trad. 啟動
- to start (a machine)
- (fig.) to set in motion
- to launch (an operation)
- to activate (a plan)
Trad. 啟明
- Classical Chinese name for planet Venus in the east before dawn
Trad. 啟發
- to enlighten
- to explain (a text etc)
- to stimulate (a mental attitude)
- enlightenment
- revelation
- motivation
Trad. 啟示
- to reveal
- to enlighten
- enlightenment
- revelation
- illumination
- moral (of a story etc)
- lesson
Trad. 啟蒙
- 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
Trad. 啟蟄
- Waking from Hibernation
- old variant of 驚蟄|惊蛰[Jing1 zhe2], Insects Wake, 3rd of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气[er4 shi2 si4 jie2 qi5] 6th-20th March
Trad. 謹啟
- to respectfully inform (used at the beginning or end of letters)
Trad. 徐光啟
- Xu Guangqi (1562-1633), agricultural scientist, astronomer, and mathematician in the Ming dynasty
Trad. 啟東市
- Qidong, a county-level city in Nantong City 南通市[Nan2 tong1 Shi4], Jiangsu
Trad. 啟海話
- Qihai dialect, a Wu dialect spoken in Tongzhou, Haimen, and Qidong districts in southern Jiangsu province, and on Chongming Island in Shanghai
Trad. 啟示錄
- the Revelation of St John the divine
- the Apocalypse
Trad. 梁啟超
- Liang Qichao (1873-1929), influential journalist and a leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
Trad. 明天啟
- Tianqi Emperor, reign name of fifteenth Ming emperor Zhu Youxiao 朱由校[Zhu1 You2 xiao4] (1605-1627), reigned 1620-1627, temple name 明熹宗[Ming2 Xi1 zong1]
Trad. 殷憂啟聖
- deep suffering can lead to enlightenment (idiom)
- storms make oaks take deeper root
Trad. 承先啟後
- see 承前啟後|承前启后[cheng2 qian2 qi3 hou4]
Trad. 承前啟後
- to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition
- forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
Trad. 啟德機場
- Kai Tak Airport, international airport of Hong Kong from 1925 to 1998
Trad. 啟應祈禱
- Introitus (section of Catholic mass)
Trad. 不憤不啟
- a student shall not be enlightened until he has tried hard by himself (idiom)
Trad. 難以啟齒
- to be too embarrassed to mention sth (idiom)
- to find it hard to speak about sth
Trad. 羞於啟齒
- to be too shy to speak one's mind (idiom)