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Kanji for Enlighten
The kanji for “enlighten” is 啓, read kei and written in 11 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
啓
enlighten
To open the way and guide others.
11 strokes On reading ケイ (kei) Kun reading ひらく、さとす (hiraku, satosu) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: disclose, open, say
Readings used for names on Nazuke: aki, kei, hiro, yoshi
In Japan it appears in about 413 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
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