Xu Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Gate (mén)
12 strokes
Page 1331, Entry 05
Ancient form.
Guangyun: Pronounced kai.
Jiyun, Yunhui: Pronounced kai.
Shuowen: To open or expand.
Guangyun: To untie or release.
Yunhui: To reveal or start.
Erya (Erya): To open or unseal.
Also, Wuyin Jiyun: To communicate or pass through.
I Ching (Yijing), Commentary on the Qian Hexagram: To prosper and circulate. It gathers all things together, allowing them to open and circulate, hence prosperity.
Also, to initiate or provoke.
Book of Rites (Liji), Record on Education (Xueji): Therefore, the teaching of the superior man is to provide guidance. He initiates but does not force understanding.
Commentary: To initiate refers to guiding the initial thoughts.
Sub-commentary: To provide the scholar with an opening to understand the fundamental meanings.
Also, to explain or interpret.
I Ching (Yijing), Commentary on the Wenyan of Qian and Kun: All hexagrams and lines emerge from Qian and Kun; therefore, the Wenyan was written specifically to explain and interpret them.
Book of Documents (Shujing), Numerous Regions (Duofang): To execute the many criminals is also to encourage the virtuous; to release the innocent is also to encourage the virtuous.
Also, Yunhui: A category or article.
Also, to begin or commence.
History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Feng Yan: The year begins and spring arrives; the hundred flowers contain their blossoms.
Commentary: Development and initiation both mean to begin.
Book of Rites (Liji), Tangong: Previously, your heart was perhaps opened to me.
Commentary: Opened means to provide advice or initiate reflection.
Also, name of a star.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Treatise on the Celestial Offices, Commentary on the Seven Stars of the Northern Dipper: The Chunqiu Yundouji says: the sixth star of the Dipper is Kaiyang.
Also, Jiyun: Name of a prefecture. Originally the territory of Qu County during the Han dynasty; the Northern Wei established Kaizhou Town.
Also, name of a county.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals of Emperor Gao: He joined in the attack on Kaifeng.
Also, Annals of Meritorious Officials: The Marquis of Kaifeng, Tao She.
Commentary: The name of a county, belongs to Henan.
Also, Jiyun: Name of a person.
Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Twenty-third Year of Duke Xiang: Cao Kai drove the chariot for the leader.
Commentary: A minister of Qi.
Also, Yunhui: A surname.
Also, Jiyun: Commonly written as the variant form (kai). Refer to the entry for that character.
Also, Jiyun: Pronounced qian. Name of a mountain, located in Yongzhou. Commonly written as the variant form (qian).
Also, Yunbu: Rhymes with kui.
Xie Huilian, Poem on Beating Clothes: It fills the chest from my hands, hidden and sealed, you open it. The waist belt is exactly as it was before, I do not know if today is right or wrong.
Also, rhymes with qi.
Zuo Si, Rhapsody on the Capital of Shu: The gates for proclaiming transformation, the chambers for honoring ritual. The magnificent towers are double and distant, the heavy doors open wide.
Shuowen: This is the original form of the character.
Correction: Jiyun states it is pronounced qian, name of a mountain in Yongzhou, commonly written as the variant form (qian). We have corrected the original text from the variant (yi) to (qian).