qǐ fā

Traditional: 啟發

HSK 5

启发 (qǐ fā) is a Chinese word meaning “to enlighten; to explain (a text etc); to stimulate (a mental attitude)”.

Meanings

  1. 1to enlighten
  2. 2to explain (a text etc)
  3. 3to stimulate (a mental attitude)
  4. 4enlightenment
  5. 5revelation
  6. 6motivation
Part of speech
verb, noun

Characters in 启发

启qǐ · to open发fā · to send out

Related words

发生to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out发现to notice; to become aware of发to send out发hair头发hair (on the head)发誓to vow出发to set off发展development启动to start (a machine)发射to shoot (a projectile)发出to issue (an order, decree etc); to send out; to dispatch发明to invent

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