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啓: open

open; enlighten; respectfully say
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けい: 拝啓(はいけい) "Dear Sir", 啓発(けいはつ) "awareness-raising", 啓蒙(けいもう) "enlightenment", 啓示(けいじ) "revelation".

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Key words

拝啓はいけいDear Sir (letter opener)
啓発けいはつenlightenment; awareness
啓蒙けいもうenlightenment
啓示けいじrevelation
天啓てんけいdivine revelation

Example sentences

It is the rule to write "Dear Sir" at the start of a letter.

This lecture is one of the awareness-raising activities on environmental problems.

In eighteenth-century Europe, Enlightenment thought spread.

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